Michael E. Lopez-Alegria's Birth Card: The 2 of Clubs

In the record

Michael López-Alegría (born Miguel Eladio López Alegría; born May 30, 1958) is an astronaut, test pilot and commercial astronaut with dual nationality, American and Spanish; a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions and one International Space Station mission. The birth-card coordinate for May 30 is the 2 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 2 of Clubs coordinate

Michael E. Lopez-Alegria's birthday maps to the 2 of Clubs (The Collaborative Builder). 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. Lopez-Alegria. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You think with someone else and still leave the conversation with a position of your own.

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Michael E. Lopez-Alegria in the public record

He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record (first among NASA astronauts) and having the fifth-longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006, to April 21, 2007. López-Alegría commanded Axiom-1, the first all-private team of commercial astronaut mission to the International Space Station, which launched on April 8, 2022, and spent just over 17 days in Earth's orbit. Son of a Spanish father and an American mother, López-Alegría was born in Madrid, Spain and raised in Mission Viejo, California. After graduating from Mission Viejo High School, López-Alegría joined the United States Navy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in systems engineering in 1980 from the U.S. Naval Academy, and a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1988 from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Designated a Naval Aviator in 1981, his aviation experience in the Navy was as an instructor pilot in Training Squadron 2 (VT-2) at Naval Air Station Whiting Field near Pensacola, Florida, at Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 2 (VQ-2) in Rota, Spain, and the Naval Air Test Center at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. He was the first EP-3E pilot to be selected for U.S.

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

Where the record meets the King 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 Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.

He is known for having performed ten spacewalks so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record (first among NASA astronauts) and having the fifth-longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006, to April 21, 2007.

Paired on shared wording: career, holding.

Also on the record

1. Naval Test Pilot School.
2. He is a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School's Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.
3. He is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Russian.
4. His son Nicolas starred alongside López-Alegría in 2006 in Mira La Luna (directed by Eduard Bosch).

Other astronauts with this card

• Alan B. Shepard Jr. — NASA Group 1 · Deceased · 2 flights
• J. Mike Lounge — NASA Group 9 · Deceased · 3 flights
• Mark N. Brown — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights
• Neil W. Woodward III — NASA Group 17 · Former · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Richard N. Richards — NASA Group 9 · Former · 4 flights
• Robert L. Satcher Jr. — NASA Group 19 · Former · 1 flight
• Steven W. Lindsey — NASA Group 15 · Former · 5 flights
• William M. Shepherd — NASA Group 10 · Former · 4 flights
• William S. McArthur Jr. — NASA Group 3 · Former · 4 flights

FAQ

What is Michael E. Lopez-Alegria's birth card?

The 2 of Clubs. May 30 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. Lopez-Alegria's dates come from?

Birth date 1958-05-30 is the day-precision date on Michael E. Lopez-Alegria's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 14 · 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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