Loren W. Acton's Birth Card: The 3 of Spades

In the record

Loren Wilber Acton (born March 7, 1936) is an American physicist who flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-51-F as a Payload Specialist for the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory. The birth-card coordinate for March 7 is the 3 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 3 of Spades coordinate

Loren W. Acton's birthday maps to the 3 of Spades (The Sorrowful Truth). 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 Loren W. Acton. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay with the hard feeling long enough to learn it, then you let the day continue.

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Loren W. Acton in the public record

He is also the father of Cheryll Glotfelty, a leading ecocritic. Acton was born in Lewistown, Montana. He received a bachelor of science degree in Engineering Physics from Montana State University in 1959, and a Doctor of Philosophy in astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1965. Acton was a senior staff scientist with the Space Sciences Laboratory, Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, California. As a research scientist, his principal duties included conducting scientific studies of the Sun and other celestial objects using advanced space instruments and serving as a co-investigator on one of the Spacelab 2 solar experiments, the Solar Optical Universal Polarimeter. He was selected as one of four payload specialists for Spacelab 2 on August 9, 1978, and after seven years of training he flew on STS-51-F/ Spacelab-2 in 1985. At the conclusion of the mission, Acton had travelled over 2.8 million miles in 126 Earth orbits, logging over 190 hours in space. Acton is married and has two children.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Loren Acton (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 Loren W. Acton, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Ability to see what needs fixing

He received a bachelor of science degree in Engineering Physics from Montana State University in 1959, and a Doctor of Philosophy in astrophysics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1965.

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

Also on the record

1. In 2006 he ran in an election to be the state representative of Montana's District 69, as a Democratic candidate.
2. In the event, he lost to the Republican incumbent, Jack M.
3. Wells of Belgrade.
4. Acton is currently retired from his role as a Research Professor of Physics at Montana State University, where he was responsible for the formation of the Solar Physics group and the Space Science and Engineering Laboratory.

Other astronauts with this card

• Franklin R. Chang-Diaz — NASA Group 9 · Former · 7 flights
• Judith A. Resnik — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• Peggy A. Whitson — NASA Group 16 · Former · 2 flights

FAQ

What is Loren W. Acton's birth card?

The 3 of Spades. March 7 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 Loren W. Acton's dates come from?

Birth date 1936-03-07 is the day-precision date on Loren W. Acton's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Former · 1 flight), 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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