NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate

Peter J. k. Wisoff's Birth Card: The 10 of Clubs

NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights

Born August 16, 1958

The Master Builder

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

Peter Jeffrey Kelsay Wisoff (born August 16, 1958) is an American physicist and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for August 16 is the 10 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 10 of Clubs coordinate

Peter J. k. Wisoff's birthday maps to the 10 of Clubs (The Master 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 Peter J. k. Wisoff. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You carry a finished body of knowledge and keep teaching from it.

Live 10 of Clubs meaning page

Peter J. k. Wisoff in the public record

Wisoff qualified as mission specialist and flew in four Space Shuttle missions, with his first launch in 1993 and his last in 2000. Wisoff graduated from Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1976, received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics (with highest distinction) from University of Virginia in 1980, a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1982 and 1986 respectively. Wisoff's graduate work at Stanford University (as a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow) focused on development of short wavelength lasers. Wisoff later joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Rice University. His research focused on the development of new vacuum ultraviolet and high intensity laser sources. He also collaborated with researchers from regional Texas Medical Centers on the applications of lasers to the reconstruction of damaged nerves and has collaborated with researchers at Rice University on new techniques for growing and evaluating semiconductor materials using lasers. Wisoff has contributed numerous papers at technical conferences and in journals in the areas of lasers and laser applications. On October 1, 2013, Wisoff was named the interim principal associate director for the NIF and Photon Sciences directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in place of the outgoing Ed Moses.

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

Where the record meets the 10 of Clubs

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 Peter J. k. Wisoff, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Cards in Peter J. k. Wisoff's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 10♣, 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.

Intellectual mastery and deep expertise

10♣ — Birth Card, from the published 10 of Clubs meaning

Wisoff graduated from Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1976, received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics (with highest distinction) from University of Virginia in 1980, a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford University in 1982 and 1986 respectively.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: physics.

Also on the record

  1. Selected by NASA in January 1990, Wisoff became an astronaut in July 1991.
  2. He is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist.
  3. His technical assignments to date include: spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) in Mission Control; flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL); coordinating flight crew equipment; evaluating extravehicular activity (EVA) equipment and techniques for the construction of Space Station; lead for the Payloads and Habitability Branch of the Astronaut Office.
  4. A veteran of four space flights, STS-57 in 1993, STS-68 in 1994, STS-81 in 1997 and STS-92 in 2000, Wisoff has logged a total of 42 days, 56 hours, 1 minute and 48 seconds in space, including 19 hours and 53 minutes of EVA time in three space walks.

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FAQ

What is Peter J. k. Wisoff's birth card?
The 10 of Clubs. August 16 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 Peter J. k. Wisoff's dates come from?
Birth date 1958-08-16 is the day-precision date on Peter J. k. Wisoff's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Peter J. k. Wisoff) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1333261) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Peter Wisoff). Birth date 1958-08-16 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).