Kathryn D. Sullivan's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds

In the record

Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. The birth-card coordinate for October 3 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 6 of Diamonds coordinate

Kathryn D. Sullivan's birthday maps to the 6 of Diamonds (The Generous Provider). 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 Kathryn D. Sullivan. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.

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Kathryn D. Sullivan in the public record

She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions. A graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz, in the United States, and Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada—where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in geology in 1978—Sullivan was selected as one of the six women among the 35 astronaut candidate in NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group to include women. During her training, she became the first woman to be certified to wear a United States Air Force pressure suit, and on July 1, 1979, she set an unofficial sustained American aviation altitude record for women. During her first mission, STS-41-G, Sullivan performed the first extra-vehicular activity (EVA) by an American woman. On her second, STS-31, she helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. On the third, STS-45, she served as Payload Commander on the first Spacelab mission dedicated to NASA's Mission to Planet Earth. Sullivan was Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) after being confirmed by the US Senate on March 6, 2014. Her tenure ended on January 20, 2017, after which she was designated as the 2017 Charles A.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Kathryn D. Sullivan, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

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Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist, oceanographer, and former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer.

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

Also on the record

1. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, and also served as a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
2. On June 7, 2020, Sullivan became the first woman to dive into the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth's oceans.
3. In September 2021, President Joe Biden appointed her to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Other astronauts with this card

• Christopher J. Loria — NASA Group 16 · Former · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• G. David Low — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 3 flights
• Gregory J. Harbaugh — NASA Group 12 · Former · 4 flights
• James B. Irwin — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · 1 flight
• James D. Van Hoften — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
• John L. Phillips — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
• Jose M. Hernandez — NASA Group 19 · Former · 1 flight
• Joseph P. Kerwin — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
• Kent V. Rominger — NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 flights
• Marsha S. Ivins — NASA Group 10 · Former · 5 flights
• N. Jan Davis — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights

FAQ

What is Kathryn D. Sullivan's birth card?

The 6 of Diamonds. October 3 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 Kathryn D. Sullivan's dates come from?

Birth date 1951-10-03 is the day-precision date on Kathryn D. Sullivan's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 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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