NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Rex J. Walheim's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs
The Nurturing Leader
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
Rex Joseph Walheim (born October 10, 1962) is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for October 10 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Clubs coordinate
Rex J. Walheim's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Rex J. Walheim. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.
Rex J. Walheim in the public record
He flew three Space Shuttle missions, STS-110, STS-122, and STS-135. Walheim logged over 566 hours in space, including 36 hours and 23 minutes of spacewalk (EVA) time. He was assigned as mission specialist and flight engineer on STS-135, the final Space Shuttle mission. Walheim was born in Redwood City, California, but considers San Carlos, California, his hometown. Walheim graduated from San Carlos High School in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984. He then received a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering from the University of Houston in 1989. Walheim was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force in May 1984. In April 1985 he was assigned to Cavalier Air Force Station in Cavalier, North Dakota, where he worked as a missile warning operations crew commander.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Rex J. Walheim (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 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 Rex J. Walheim, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Rex J. Walheim's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♣ — Birth Card: The Nurturing Leader
- 10♦ — Karma — Environment: The Wealthy Master
- 3♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
Deep wisdom and mental integration
Rex Joseph Walheim (born October 10, 1962) is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and NASA astronaut.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer. This line comes from the Mercury position of the Q♣'s Life Spread.
Also on the record
- In October 1986, he was reassigned to the Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas, where he worked as a mechanical systems flight controller and was the lead operations engineer for the Space Shuttle landing gear, brakes, and emergency runway barrier.
- Walheim was transferred to Headquarters Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in August 1989, where he was manager of a program upgrading missile warning radars.
- He was selected for USAF Test Pilot School in 1991, and attended the course at Edwards AFB in California in 1992.
- Following graduation, he was assigned to the F-16 Combined Test Force at Edwards where he was a project manager, and then commander of the avionics and armament flight.
Other astronauts with this card
- Dale A. Gardner — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
- David C. Hilmers — NASA Group 9 · Former · 4 flights
- David M. Walker — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 4 flights
- John M. Fabian — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
- Jon A. McBride — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. — NASA Group 12 · Former · 2 flights
- Margaret Rhea Seddon — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
- Mark C. Lee — NASA Group 10 · Former · 4 flights
- Scott J. Horowitz — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
- Susan J. Helms — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
- Thomas D. Akers — NASA Group 12 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is Rex J. Walheim's birth card?
- The Queen of Clubs. October 10 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 Rex J. Walheim's dates come from?
- Birth date 1962-10-10 is the day-precision date on Rex J. Walheim's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 16 · 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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Sources: NASA astronaut biography (Rex J. Walheim) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q447304) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Rex J. Walheim). Birth date 1962-10-10 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).