Richard A. Mastracchio's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Richard Alan Mastracchio (born February 11, 1960) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for February 11 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Richard A. Mastracchio's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). 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 Richard A. Mastracchio. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

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Richard A. Mastracchio in the public record

He has flown on three NASA Space Shuttle missions as a mission specialist in addition to serving as a flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-11M (Expedition 38/Expedition 39) long-duration mission aboard the International Space Station. He is currently the senior director of operations for commercial resupply services at Orbital ATK. Richard Mastracchio was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and graduated from Crosby High School in 1978. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Connecticut in 1982, a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1987, and a Master of Science degree in physical science from the University of Houston–Clear Lake in 1991. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is married to Candi Mastracchio. Mastracchio worked for Hamilton Standard in Connecticut as an engineer in the system design group from 1982 until 1987. During that time, he participated in the development of high performance, inertial measurement units and flight control computers.

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

Where the record meets the Ace 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 Richard A. Mastracchio, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth

Richard Alan Mastracchio (born February 11, 1960) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut.

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

Also on the record

1. In 1987, Mastracchio moved to Houston, Texas, to work for the Rockwell Shuttle Operations Company at the Johnson Space Center.
2. In 1990, he joined NASA as an engineer in the Flight Crew Operations Directorate.
3. His duties included the development of space shuttle flight software requirements, the verification of space shuttle flight software in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory, and the development of ascent and abort crew procedures for the Astronaut Office.
4. From 1993 until 1996, he worked as an ascent/entry Guidance and Procedures Officer (GPO) in Mission Control.

Other astronauts with this card

• Edward T. Lu — NASA Group 15 · Former · 3 flights
• Stephen D. Thorne — NASA Group 11 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table

FAQ

What is Richard A. Mastracchio's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. February 11 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 Richard A. Mastracchio's dates come from?

Birth date 1960-02-11 is the day-precision date on Richard A. Mastracchio'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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