James A. McDivitt's Birth Card: The 7 of Diamonds

In the record

James Alton McDivitt Jr. (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs. The birth-card coordinate for June 10 is the 7 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 7 of Diamonds coordinate

James A. McDivitt's birthday maps to the 7 of Diamonds (The Skeptical Investor). 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 James A. McDivitt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You look at worth without reducing it to the account balance.

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James A. McDivitt in the public record

He joined the USAF in 1951 and flew 145 combat missions in the Korean War. In 1959, after graduating first in his class with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan through the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) program, he qualified as a test pilot at the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School (Class 59C) and Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class I), and joined the Manned Spacecraft Operations Branch. By September 1962, McDivitt had logged over 2,500 flight hours, of which more than 2,000 hours were in jet aircraft. This included flying as a chase pilot for Robert M. White's North American X-15 flight on July 17, 1962, in which White reached an altitude of 59.5 miles (95.8 km) and became the first X-15 pilot to be awarded Astronaut Wings. In 1962, McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA as part of Astronaut Group 2. He commanded the Gemini 4 mission, during which Ed White performed the first U.S. spacewalk, and later the Apollo 9 flight, which was the first crewed flight test of the Apollo Lunar Module and the complete set of Apollo flight hardware.

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

Where the record meets the 5 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 James A. McDivitt, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Quick thinking and mental flexibility

James Alton McDivitt Jr. (June 10, 1929 – October 13, 2022) was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, pilot.

Also on the record

1. He later became the manager of lunar landing operations and was the Apollo spacecraft program manager from 1969 to 1972.
2. In June 1972 he left NASA and retired from the USAF with the rank of brigadier general.

Other astronauts with this card

• Buzz Aldrin — NASA Group 3 · Former · 2 flights
• Gregory H. Johnson — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• Jerry L. Ross — NASA Group 9 · Former · 7 flights
• Michael J. Bloomfield — NASA Group 15 · Former · 3 flights
• Theodore C. Freeman — NASA Group 3 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Walter Cunningham — NASA Group 3 · Deceased · 1 flight
• Winston E. Scott — NASA Group 14 · Former · 2 flights

FAQ

What is James A. McDivitt's birth card?

The 7 of Diamonds. June 10 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 James A. McDivitt's dates come from?

Birth date 1929-06-10 is the day-precision date on James A. McDivitt's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 2 · Deceased · 2 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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