Jeffrey A. Hoffman's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The birth-card coordinate for November 2 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Jeffrey A. Hoffman'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 Jeffrey A. Hoffman. 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.

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Jeffrey A. Hoffman in the public record

Hoffman made five flights as a Space Shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. Trained as an astrophysicist, he also flew on the 1990 Spacelab Shuttle mission that featured the Astro-1 ultraviolet astronomical observatory in the Shuttle's payload bay. Over the course of his five missions he logged more than 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space. He was also NASA's second Jewish astronaut, and the second Jewish man in space after Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov. Hoffman was born November 2, 1944, in Brooklyn, New York, but considers Scarsdale, New York, to be his hometown. He graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1962. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) in astronomy from Amherst College in 1966, a Doctor of Philosophy in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1971, and a Master of Science degree in materials science from Rice University in 1988. Hoffman is an Eagle Scout.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Jeffrey A. Hoffman, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Ability to articulate complex ideas clearly

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Also on the record

1. Hoffman is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the International Astronomical Union, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Astronomical Society, the Spanish Academy of Engineering, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi.
2. As of 2005 he is co-director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium and a professor of the Practice in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.
3. Hoffman's original research interests were in high-energy astrophysics, specifically cosmic gamma ray and x-ray astronomy.
4. His doctoral work at Harvard was the design, construction, testing, and flight of a balloon-borne, low-energy, gamma ray telescope.

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
• Donald R. McMonagle — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
• Fernando Caldeiro — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Thomas D. Jones — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• William G. Gregory — NASA Group 13 · Former · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Jeffrey A. Hoffman's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. November 2 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 Jeffrey A. Hoffman's dates come from?

Birth date 1944-11-02 is the day-precision date on Jeffrey A. Hoffman's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 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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