Patricia Hilliard Robertson's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Patricia Consolatrix Hilliard Robertson (March 12, 1963 – May 24, 2001) was an American physician and a NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for March 12 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Patricia Hilliard Robertson's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Patricia Hilliard Robertson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

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Patricia Hilliard Robertson in the public record

She died in a plane crash prior to being assigned to a crew to fly to the International Space Station. She was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Ilse Hilliard and the late Harold Hilliard of Homer City. She was married to Scott Robertson. She graduated from Homer-Center High School, Homer City, Pennsylvania, in 1980. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1985, and a medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1989. She completed a three-year residency in family medicine in 1992 and was certified by the American Board of Family Medicine in the same year. She completed a two-year fellowship in space medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch and NASA Johnson Space Center in 1997, which included the Aerospace Medicine Primary Course at Brooks Air Force Base. After completing her training in Family Medicine in 1992, Robertson joined a group practice, Elk Valley Medical Center in Girard, Pennsylvania.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Patricia Hilliard Robertson, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Ability to see what needs fixing

Patricia Consolatrix Hilliard Robertson (March 12, 1963 – May 24, 2001) was an American physician and a NASA astronaut.

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

Also on the record

1. She was on the staff of Saint Vincent Medical Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, for three years where she served as the clinical coordinator for medical student training, and also provided training and supervision for resident physicians.
2. In 1995, Robertson was one of two fellows selected to study aerospace medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, and at the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
3. While enrolled as a Space Medicine Fellow, Robertson completed a research project where she studied eccentric and concentric resistive exercise countermeasures for space flight.
4. Robertson also served as a member of the faculty at UTMB in the departments of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine.

Other astronauts with this card

• David R. Scott — NASA Group 3 · Former · 3 flights
• Jerry M. Linenger — NASA Group 14 · Former · 2 flights
• L. Blaine Hammond Jr. — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights
• Michael L. Coats — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
• Walter M. Schirra Jr. — NASA Group 1 · Deceased · 3 flights

FAQ

What is Patricia Hilliard Robertson's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. March 12 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 Patricia Hilliard Robertson's dates come from?

Birth date 1963-03-12 is the day-precision date on Patricia Hilliard Robertson's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 17 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table), 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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