NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Marsha S. Ivins's Birth Card: The 6 of Diamonds
The Generous Provider
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
Marsha Sue Ivins (born April 15, 1951) is an American retired astronaut and a veteran of five Space Shuttle missions. The birth-card coordinate for April 15 is the 6 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 6 of Diamonds coordinate
Marsha S. Ivins'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 Marsha S. Ivins. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move resources toward other people without erasing your own claim.
Marsha S. Ivins in the public record
Born on April 15, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ivins graduated from Nether Providence High School in Wallingford, Pennsylvania in 1969, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1973. She is Jewish-American. She went to work for NASA's Johnson Space Center, and worked mainly on orbiter displays and controls, before being assigned as a flight engineer in 1980 and co-pilot on NASA administrative aircraft. In 1984, Ivins was selected as an astronaut candidate. She has flown aboard five space missions: STS-32 (1990), STS-46 (1992), STS-62 (1994), STS-81 (1997), and STS-98 (2001). Ivins retired from NASA on December 31, 2010. STS-32 (January 9–20, 1990) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on an eleven-day flight, during which crew members on board the Space Shuttle Columbia successfully deployed a Syncom satellite, and retrieved the 21,400-pound Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). Mission duration was 261 hours, 1 minute, and 38 seconds.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Marsha Ivins (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 Marsha S. Ivins, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Marsha S. Ivins's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 6♦ — Birth Card: The Generous Provider
- 3♠ — Karma — Environment: The Sorrowful Truth
- 9♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Humanitarian Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- A♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♣ — 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.
Ability to see what needs fixing
She went to work for NASA's Johnson Space Center, and worked mainly on orbiter displays and controls, before being assigned as a flight engineer in 1980 and co-pilot on NASA administrative aircraft.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, pilot.
Also on the record
- Following 173 orbits of the Earth and 4.5 million miles, Columbia returned with a night landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
- STS-46 (July 31 – August 8, 1992) was an 8-day mission, during which crew members deployed the EURECA (European Retrievable Carrier) satellite, and conducted the first Tethered Satellite System (TSS) test flight.
- Mission duration was 191 hours, 16 minutes, and 7 seconds.
- Space Shuttle Atlantis and her crew launched and landed at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, completing 126 orbits of the Earth in 3.35 million miles.
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
- Kathryn D. Sullivan — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Kent V. Rominger — NASA Group 14 · Former · 5 flights
- N. Jan Davis — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is Marsha S. Ivins's birth card?
- The 6 of Diamonds. April 15 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 Marsha S. Ivins's dates come from?
- Birth date 1951-04-15 is the day-precision date on Marsha S. Ivins's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 10 · Former · 5 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 (Marsha S. Ivins) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q41632) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Marsha Ivins). Birth date 1951-04-15 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).