NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Donald R. McMonagle's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds
The Dynamic Entrepreneur
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a spaceflight.
In the record
Donald Ray McMonagle (born May 14, 1952) (Col, USAF, Ret.) is a former astronaut and a veteran of three shuttle flights. The birth-card coordinate for May 14 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 5 of Diamonds coordinate
Donald R. McMonagle's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a mission and not a verdict on Donald R. McMonagle. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.
Donald R. McMonagle in the public record
He became the Manager, Launch Integration, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 15, 1997. In this capacity he was responsible for final shuttle preparation, launch execution, and return of the orbiter to KSC following landings at any other location. He was chair of the Mission Management Team, and was the final authority for launch decision. McMonagle was born on May 14, 1952, in Flint, Michigan, and graduated from Hamady High School in 1970. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in astronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974, a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Fresno in 1985, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 2003. McMonagle completed pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base (AFB), Mississippi, in 1975. After F-4 training at Homestead AFB, Florida, he went on a one-year tour of duty as an F-4 pilot at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. He returned from overseas to Holloman AFB, New Mexico, in 1977.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Donald R. McMonagle (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen of Spades
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Donald R. McMonagle, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Donald R. McMonagle's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♦ — Birth Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Ability to hold space for others' exploration
This role included responsibility for developing and implementing a plan for research and development of next-generation space suits to support future human space exploration.
Paired on shared wording: exploration, space. This line comes from the Mercury position of the 5♦'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- In 1979, McMonagle was assigned to Luke AFB, Arizona, as an F-15 instructor pilot.
- In 1981, he entered the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB, California, and was the outstanding graduate in his class.
- From 1982 to 1985, McMonagle was the operations officer and a project test pilot for the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration F-16 aircraft.
- After attending the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, from 1985 to 1986, he was assigned as the operations officer of the 6513th Test Squadron at Edwards AFB.
Other astronauts with this card
- Bryan D. O’Connor — NASA Group 9 · Former · 2 flights
- Carl E. Walz — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- David M. Brown — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Fernando Caldeiro — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Jeffrey A. Hoffman — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Thomas D. Jones — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- William G. Gregory — NASA Group 13 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Donald R. McMonagle's birth card?
- The 5 of Diamonds. May 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a spaceflight?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast missions, character, or fate.
- Where do Donald R. McMonagle's dates come from?
- Birth date 1952-05-14 is the day-precision date on Donald R. McMonagle's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights), verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only NASA dates and NASA↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Donald R. McMonagle) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1240263) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Donald R. McMonagle). Birth date 1952-05-14 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).