John S. Bull's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts

In the record

John Sumter Bull (September 25, 1934 – August 11, 2008), was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, mechanical and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for September 25 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Queen of Hearts coordinate

John S. Bull's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted 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 John S. Bull. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.

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John S. Bull in the public record

Bull was born on September 25, 1934, in Memphis, Tennessee, where he attended primary and secondary schools and graduated in 1952 from Central High School. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Rice University in 1957. Bull took leave from working at NASA Ames to earn a Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in Aeronautical Engineering in 1971 and 1973, respectively. In his youth, he was active in the Boy Scouts of America. Bull joined the U.S. Navy in June 1957. Following his flight training, from March 1959 to November 1960, he flew the F-3 Demon and F-4 Phantom II while assigned to VF-114 at the Naval Air Station in Mirimar, California. Bull was a Navy fighter pilot with the VF-114 squadron aboard the aircraft carriers USS Ranger, USS Hancock, and USS Kitty Hawk.

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

Where the record meets the 10 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 John S. Bull, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Deep wisdom and mental integration

John Sumter Bull (September 25, 1934 – August 11, 2008), was an American naval officer and aviator, fighter pilot, test pilot, mechanical and aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut.

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

Also on the record

1. Bull graduated from the U.S.
2. Naval Test Pilot School in February 1964, as an outstanding graduate.
3. He was a project test pilot in the Carrier Suitability Branch at the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, at the time of his astronaut selection.
4. He logged more than 2,100 hours flying time; 1,800 hours in jet aircraft.

Other astronauts with this card

• Michael E. Fossum — NASA Group 17 · Former · 3 flights

FAQ

What is John S. Bull's birth card?

The Queen of Hearts. September 25 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 John S. Bull's dates come from?

Birth date 1934-09-25 is the day-precision date on John S. Bull's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 5 · 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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