Edward T. Lu's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Edward Tsang Lu (Chinese: 盧傑; pinyin: Lú Jié; born July 1, 1963) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for July 1 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Edward T. Lu's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). 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 Edward T. Lu. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

Live Ace of Spades meaning page

Edward T. Lu in the public record

He flew on two Space Shuttle flights, and made an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. In 2007, Lu retired from NASA to become the program manager of Google's Advanced Projects Team. In 2002, while still at NASA, Lu co-founded the B612 Foundation, dedicated to protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes, later serving as its chairman. As of 2020, he is its executive director. Lu was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Webster, New York. Lu attended R. L. Thomas High School, where he was a member of the wrestling team and graduated in 1980.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ed Lu (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 7 of Hearts

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 Edward T. Lu, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You look at love clearly without using analysis as a way not to feel it.

Randi asked Lu to (without looking) select a card from the middle of a brand new freshly shuffled deck of cards, turn it around and reinsert the card into the deck the opposite direction.

Paired on shared wording: looking, without.

Also on the record

1. After high school, Lu graduated from Cornell University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in electrical engineering and was a member of Pi Kappa Phi.
2. He then earned a Master of Science (M.S.) and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1989 as a fellow of the National Science Foundation.
3. Lu became a specialist in solar physics and did postdoctoral work at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado and the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii before being selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1994.
4. Lu flew on Space Shuttle missions STS-84 in 1997 and STS-106 in 2000, in which he carried out a six-hour spacewalk to perform construction work on the International Space Station.

Other astronauts with this card

• Richard A. Mastracchio — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
• Stephen D. Thorne — NASA Group 11 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table

FAQ

What is Edward T. Lu's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. July 1 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 Edward T. Lu's dates come from?

Birth date 1963-07-01 is the day-precision date on Edward T. Lu's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 15 · 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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