Jerome Apt III's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Jerome "Jay" Apt III (born April 28, 1949) is a retired NASA astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. The birth-card coordinate for April 28 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Jerome Apt III's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). 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 Jerome Apt III. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Jerome Apt III in the public record

During his time at NASA, Apt was a flight controller in the Mission Control Center and completed four space flights logging over 35 days in space. Before becoming an astronaut, Apt was a physicist who worked on the Pioneer Venus 1978 space probe project, and used visible light and infrared techniques to study the planets and moons of the Solar System from ground-based observatories. Apt is an instrument-rated commercial pilot, and has logged over 7,000 hours flying time in approximately 25 different types of airplanes, seaplanes, sailplanes, and human-powered aircraft. Apt was a resident of Shadyside and graduated from Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1967. He went on to attend Harvard University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in physics magna cum laude in 1971. He then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in experimental atomic physics in 1976. From 1976 to 1980 he was a staff member of the Center for Earth & Planetary Physics at Harvard, and served as the Assistant Director of Harvard's Division of Applied Sciences from 1978 to 1980 and was the founding director of Harvard's Planetary Imaging Computer Center. In 1980 he joined the Earth and Space Sciences Division of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a scientist doing planetary research; he was science manager of the optical facilities at JPL's Table Mountain Observatory.

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

Where the record meets the 6 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 Jerome Apt III, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Natural teaching and mentoring ability

Jerome "Jay" Apt III (born April 28, 1949) is a retired NASA astronaut and professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

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

Also on the record

1. He was the group leader of JPL's optical astronomy group.
2. From 1982 through 1985 he was a flight controller responsible for Shuttle payload operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
3. He worked in the mission control center on missions STS-7, STS-8, STS-41B, STS-41C, STS-41D, STS-41G, STS-51A, and STS-51D (the last four as Payload Officer).
4. In 1985 he was selected as an astronaut candidate, and qualified to become an astronaut after a year of training.

Other astronauts with this card

• Charles Lacy Veach — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 2 flights
• Ellison S. Onizuka — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• James H. Newman — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• Kenneth T. Ham — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• Paul S. Lockhart — NASA Group 16 · Former · 2 flights
• Sally K. Ride — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
• Steven A. Hawley — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights

FAQ

What is Jerome Apt III's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. April 28 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 Jerome Apt III's dates come from?

Birth date 1949-04-28 is the day-precision date on Jerome Apt III's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 11 · 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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