NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Michael J. McCulley's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds
The Universal 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
Michael James McCulley (born August 4, 1943) is a retired American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, metallurgical engineer, and former NASA astronaut, and was the first submariner in space. The birth-card coordinate for August 4 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Michael J. McCulley's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal 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 Michael J. McCulley. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.
Michael J. McCulley in the public record
He served as pilot on the STS-34 Atlantis mission that among other things deployed the Galileo spacecraft on its journey toward Jupiter. From 2003 to 2007, McCulley also served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of United Space Alliance, the contractor responsible for significant elements of space shuttle program operations. McCulley was born on August 4, 1943, in San Diego, California. Married to the former Jane Emalie Thygeson of Melbourne, Florida with six children and fifteen grandchildren. He currently resides in Cocoa Beach, Florida. He graduated from Livingston Academy in Livingston, Tennessee, in 1961. He received a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from Purdue University, both in 1970. After graduation from high school, McCulley enlisted in the U.S.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Michael J. McCulley (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Diamonds
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 J. McCulley, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Michael J. McCulley's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♦ — Birth Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 6♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 9♦, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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.
Visionary thinking about resource distribution
From 2003 to 2007, McCulley also served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of United Space Alliance, the contractor responsible for significant elements of space shuttle program operations.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: executive.
Also on the record
- Navy and subsequently served on one diesel-powered and two nuclear-powered submarines.
- In 1965 he entered Purdue University, and in January 1970, received his Officer's commission in the Navy and bachelor's and master's degrees.
- Following flight training, he served tours of duty in A-4 Skyhawk and A-6 Intruder aircraft, and was selected to attend the Empire Test Pilots' School in Great Britain.
- He served in a variety of test pilots billets at the Naval Air Test Center, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, before returning to sea duty on USS Saratoga and USS Nimitz.
Other astronauts with this card
- Andrew M . Allen — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
- Bruce McCandless II — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · 2 flights
- Charles D. Gemar — NASA Group 11 · Former · 3 flights
- Lisa M. Nowak — NASA Group 16 · Former · 1 flight
- Stanley G. Love — NASA Group 17 · Active · 1 flight
- William B. Lenoir — NASA Group 6 · Deceased · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Michael J. McCulley's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. August 4 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 J. McCulley's dates come from?
- Birth date 1943-08-04 is the day-precision date on Michael J. McCulley's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 10 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Michael J. McCulley) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1372222) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Michael J. McCulley). Birth date 1943-08-04 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).