Mary L. Cleave's Birth Card: The 7 of Spades

In the record

Mary Louise Cleave (February 5, 1947 – November 27, 2023) was an American engineer and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for February 5 is the 7 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 7 of Spades coordinate

Mary L. Cleave's birthday maps to the 7 of Spades (The Questioning Mind). 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 Mary L. Cleave. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You study the hard pattern until you can name it, then you do the next honest thing.

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Mary L. Cleave in the public record

She also served from 2005 to 2007 as NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate. Cleave was born in Southampton, New York, the daughter of Howard Cleave and Barbara Cleave, both teachers. She grew up in Great Neck, New York, and had an older sister, Trudy Carter, and a younger one, Barbara "Bobbie" Cleave Bosworth. In 1965 Cleave graduated from Great Neck North High School in Great Neck, New York. In 1969 she received a bachelor of science degree in Biological Sciences from Colorado State University, and in 1975 a master of science in Microbial Ecology from Utah State University. In 1979 she received a doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. Cleave held graduate research, research phycologist, and research engineer assignments in the Ecology Center and the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University from September 1971 to June 1980. Her work included research on the productivity of the algal component of cold desert soil crusts in the Great Basin Desert south of Snowville, Utah; algal removal with intermittent sand filtration and prediction of minimum river flow necessary to maintain certain game fish and the effects of increased salinity and oil shale leachates on freshwater phytoplankton productivity.

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

Where the record meets the 7 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 Mary L. Cleave, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Penetrating questions and inquiry

Mary Louise Cleave (February 5, 1947 – November 27, 2023) was an American engineer and NASA astronaut.

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

Also on the record

1. She worked on the development of the Surface Impoundment Assessment document and computer program (FORTRAN) for current and future processing of data from surface impoundments in Utah, and the design and implementation of an algal bioassay center and a workshop for bioassay techniques for the Intermountain West.
2. Cleave was selected as an astronaut in May 1980.
3. Her technical assignments included: flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL); CAPCOM on five Space Shuttle flights; Malfunctions Procedures Book; Crew Equipment Design.
4. A veteran of two space flights, Cleave logged a total of 10 days, 22 hours, 02 minutes, 24 seconds in space, orbited the Earth 172 times and travelled 3.94 million miles.

Other astronauts with this card

• Bonnie J. Dunbar — NASA Group 9 · Former · 5 flights
• Frederick D. Gregory — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
• James C. Adamson — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights
• James S. Voss — NASA Group 12 · Former · 5 flights
• William F. Fisher — NASA Group 9 · Former · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Mary L. Cleave's birth card?

The 7 of Spades. February 5 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 Mary L. Cleave's dates come from?

Birth date 1947-02-05 is the day-precision date on Mary L. Cleave's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · Deceased · 2 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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