NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Michael E. Fossum's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts
The Devoted Nurturer
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
Michael Edward Fossum (born December 19, 1957, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American former astronaut, engineer, and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston. The birth-card coordinate for December 19 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Hearts coordinate
Michael E. Fossum's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Michael E. Fossum. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.
Michael E. Fossum in the public record
He flew into space on board the NASA Space Shuttle missions STS-121 and STS-124 and served as a mission specialist of Expedition 28 and commander of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. Fossum was involved with the United States Air Force during his undergraduate years at Texas A&M and served as commander of Squadron 3 in the Corps of Cadets. He graduated in mechanical engineering in 1980. He received his master's in physical science (space science) from the University of Houston. He was selected to attend Air Force Test Pilot School from which he flew 34 different types of aircraft. He left active duty for the Air Force Reserve in 1992 to work for NASA and retired as a colonel in the USAFR in 2010. The first time Fossum became interested in being an astronaut was at age 12 while watching the Apollo 11 Moon landing. He rekindled this dream while with the Air Force at Johnson Space Center during the early 1990s.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael E. Fossum (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 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 Michael E. Fossum, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Michael E. Fossum's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♥ — Birth Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- 9♣ — Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Creative Heart
- Q♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Nurturing Leader
- A♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Emotional Pioneer
- A♠ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Truth Pioneer
- 7♥ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Reflective Heart
- 7♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Skeptical Investor
- 5♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Restless Mind
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.
Deep wisdom and mental integration
Michael Edward Fossum (born December 19, 1957, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American former astronaut, engineer, and the Chief Operating Officer of Texas A&M University at Galveston.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer.
Also on the record
- In January 1993, Fossum was employed by NASA as a systems engineer.
- His primary responsibilities were to evaluate the Russian Soyuz spacecraft for use as an emergency escape vehicle for the new International Space Station.
- Later in 1993, Fossum was selected to represent the Flight Crew Operations Directorate in an extensive redesign of the International Space Station (ISS).
- After this, he continued work for the crew office and Mission Operations Directorate in the area of assembly operations.
Other astronauts with this card
- John S. Bull — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
FAQ
- What is Michael E. Fossum's birth card?
- The Queen of Hearts. December 19 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 Michael E. Fossum's dates come from?
- Birth date 1957-12-19 is the day-precision date on Michael E. Fossum's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 17 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Michael E. Fossum) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q434232) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Michael E. Fossum). Birth date 1957-12-19 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).