NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Leroy Chiao's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts
The Romantic Messenger
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a spaceflight.
In the record
Leroy Chiao (Chinese: 焦立中; born August 28, 1960) is an American chemical engineer, retired NASA astronaut, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and engineering consultant. The birth-card coordinate for August 28 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Jack of Hearts coordinate
Leroy Chiao's birthday maps to the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). 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 Leroy Chiao. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.
Leroy Chiao in the public record
Chiao flew on three Space Shuttle flights, and was the commander of Expedition 10, where he lived on board the International Space Station from October 13, 2004 to April 24, 2005. He is also a co-author and researcher for the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project. Chiao was born to a Taiwanese American family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was raised in Danville, California. His parents are Taiwanese waishengren who were born in Shandong province in mainland China but moved to Taiwan. They met while studying at a Taiwanese university in the 1950s before immigrating to the U.S. Chiao graduated from Monte Vista High School in Danville in 1978. In 1983, he earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Leroy Chiao (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Hearts
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 Leroy Chiao, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Leroy Chiao's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- K♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Bringing fresh perspective and inspiration to connection
Chiao was born to a Taiwanese American family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.
Also on the record
- He later earned a Master of Science (M.S.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in chemical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1985 and 1987, respectively.
- Chiao's parents were chemical engineers who immigrated to Milwaukee from the Republic of China in the late 1950s for graduate school.
- Stressing a high doctorate-level science education, his parents encouraged him to follow their lead and become an engineer.
- Chiao's aviator call sign is "Shandong," the name of the Chinese province where his parents grew up.
Other astronauts with this card
- Clifton C. Williams Jr. — NASA Group 3 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Owen K. Garriott — NASA Group 4 · Deceased · 2 flights
FAQ
- What is Leroy Chiao's birth card?
- The Jack of Hearts. August 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 Leroy Chiao's dates come from?
- Birth date 1960-08-28 is the day-precision date on Leroy Chiao's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Leroy Chiao) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q709935) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Leroy Chiao). Birth date 1960-08-28 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).