Eileen M. Collins's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

In the record

Eileen Marie Collins (born 19 November 1956) is an American retired NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel. The birth-card coordinate for November 19 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Eileen M. Collins's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative 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 Eileen M. Collins. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

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Eileen M. Collins in the public record

A flight instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle and the first to command a Space Shuttle mission. A graduate of Corning Community College, where she earned an associate degree in mathematics in 1976, and Syracuse University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics in 1978, Collins was commissioned as an officer in the USAF through Syracuse's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program. She was one of four women chosen for Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. After earning her pilot wings, she stayed on at Vance for three years as a T-38 Talon instructor pilot before transitioning to the C-141 Starlifter at Travis Air Force Base, California. During the U.S. invasion of Grenada in October 1983, her aircraft flew troops of the 82nd Airborne Division from (then) Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina to Grenada, and took thirty-six medical students back. From 1986 to 1989, she was an assistant professor in mathematics and a T-41 instructor pilot at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado. She earned a Master of Science degree in operations research from Stanford University in 1986, and a Master of Arts degree in space systems management from Webster University in 1989.

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

Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs

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 Eileen M. Collins, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Original thinking and idea generation

A graduate of Corning Community College, where she earned an associate degree in mathematics in 1976, and Syracuse University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and economics in 1978, Collins was commissioned as an officer in the USAF through Syracuse's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: mathematics.

Also on the record

1. That year, she became the second woman pilot to attend the USAF Test Pilot School, graduating with class 89B.
2. In 1990, Collins was selected to be a pilot astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 13.
3. She flew the Space Shuttle as the pilot of the 1995 STS-63 mission, which involved a space rendezvous between Space Shuttle Discovery and the Russian space station Mir.
4. She was also the pilot for STS-84 in 1997.

Other astronauts with this card

• Charles J. Precourt — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• Daniel C . Burbank — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
• Douglas G. Hurley — NASA Group 18 · Former · 3 flights
• Lee J. Archambault — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• Ronald E. McNair — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• William C. McCool — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Eileen M. Collins's birth card?

The Ace of Clubs. November 19 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 Eileen M. Collins's dates come from?

Birth date 1956-11-19 is the day-precision date on Eileen M. Collins's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 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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