NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
F. Curtis Michel's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
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
Frank Curtis Michel (June 5, 1934 – February 26, 2015) was an American astrophysicist; a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston, Texas; a United States Air Force pilot; and a NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for June 5 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
F. Curtis Michel's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 F. Curtis Michel. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
F. Curtis Michel in the public record
Michel was born June 5, 1934, to parents to Frank and Viola Michel. He was married to Bonnie Hausman, a web technical specialist. He had two children, Alice and Jeff with his first wife Beverly, who preceded him in death, and three grandchildren. His hobbies were photography, tennis, handball, and baseball. Michel died at the age of 80 on February 26, 2015. He was buried with full military honors at the Houston National Cemetery. Michel graduated from C. K.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Curt Michel (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 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 F. Curtis Michel, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in F. Curtis Michel's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
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.
Quick thinking and fast adaptation
Frank Curtis Michel (June 5, 1934 – February 26, 2015) was an American astrophysicist; a professor of astrophysics at Rice University in Houston, Texas; a United States Air Force pilot; and a NASA astronaut.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: professor.
Also on the record
- McClatchy High School, located at Sacramento, California, in 1951.
- In 1955, he received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in physics, and in 1962 he received a doctorate in physics, both from the California Institute of Technology.
- His thesis was "Beta Spectra of the Mass 12 Nuclei" and his dissertation advisor was Thomas Lauritsen.
- Nobel laureate William Alfred Fowler also served on his committee.
Other astronauts with this card
- Donald E. Williams — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
- Harrison H. Schmitt — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
- Kenneth D. Cockrell — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
- Norman E. Thagard — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Richard A. Searfoss — NASA Group 13 · Deceased · 3 flights
- Richard O. Covey — NASA Group 8 · Former · 4 flights
- Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor — NASA Group 20 · Management · 1 flight
- Tamara E. Jernigan — NASA Group 11 · Former · 5 flights
- Timothy L. Kopra — NASA Group 18 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is F. Curtis Michel's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. June 5 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 F. Curtis Michel's dates come from?
- Birth date 1934-06-05 is the day-precision date on F. Curtis Michel's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 4 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table), 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 (F. Curtis Michel) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3270358) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Curt Michel). Birth date 1934-06-05 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).