Michael L. Gernhardt's Birth Card: The 2 of Spades

In the record

Michael Landon Gernhardt (born May 4, 1956) is a retired NASA astronaut, manager of the Environmental Physiology Laboratory, and principal investigator of the Prebreathe Reduction Program (PRP) at the Lyndon B. The birth-card coordinate for May 4 is the 2 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 2 of Spades coordinate

Michael L. Gernhardt's birthday maps to the 2 of Spades (The Skeptical Partner). 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 L. Gernhardt. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You hold two pressures at once and still make a call that can live in the world.

Live 2 of Spades meaning page

Michael L. Gernhardt in the public record

Johnson Space Center. Gernhardt was selected as an astronaut in March 1992 and flew on four space shuttle missions: STS-69 (1995), STS-83 (1997), STS-94 (1997), and STS-104 (2001). Over his career, he spent more than 43 days in space and completed four spacewalks totaling 23 hours and 16 minutes. He also participated in NASA's first NEEMO mission in an underwater habitat and played a key role in later NEEMO missions that simulated lunar, Martian, and asteroid environments. Gernhardt was born in Mansfield, Ohio to Suzanne C. Winters and George M. Gernhardt. He graduated from Malabar High School in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1974.

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 2♠, K♣, 6♠, 6♣, 2♦, 8♠, 8♥, Q♥, 10♣, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 10♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a spaceflight.

Also on the record

1. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University in 1978.
2. He received a Master of Science degree in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and a Doctorate in Bioengineering in 1991.
3. From 1977 to 1984, Gernhardt worked as a professional diver and project engineer on a variety of subsea oil field construction and repair projects around the world.
4. He has logged over 700 deep sea dives, and has experience in air, mixed gas, bounce bell and saturation diving.

Other astronauts with this card

• Charles Conrad Jr. — NASA Group 2 · Deceased · 4 flights
• Garrett E. Reisman — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• Mark L. Polansky — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights

FAQ

What is Michael L. Gernhardt's birth card?

The 2 of Spades. May 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 L. Gernhardt's dates come from?

Birth date 1956-05-04 is the day-precision date on Michael L. Gernhardt's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 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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