Richard J. Hieb's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Richard James Hieb (born September 21, 1955, in Jamestown, North Dakota) is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three Space Shuttle missions. The birth-card coordinate for September 21 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Richard J. Hieb's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). 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 J. Hieb. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

Live 3 of Clubs meaning page

Richard J. Hieb in the public record

He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65. After leaving NASA he worked at AlliedSignal and Orbital before spending 14 years as an executive at Lockheed Martin. He is currently a faculty member in the University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department. Hieb's family originates from many places in Europe, and includes one line that came to the Americas in the 1600s. The name Hieb is of German origin. His mother was a long time elementary school teacher at Lincoln Elementary in Jamestown, North Dakota and his father was a transport driver before retiring and operating a small business buying and selling antiques and specialty items where he was a well-known figure at sales around eastern North Dakota. Hieb received a Bachelor of Arts degree in math and physics from Northwest Nazarene College in 1977. He went on to graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1979 with a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering.

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

Where the record meets the 5 of Diamonds

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 J. Hieb, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed. You crave variety in resources and experiences. You get bored with one income stream, one investment, one way of working. You need novelty and freedom in your material life.

During the 15-day flight the crew conducted more than 80 experiments focusing on materials and life sciences research in micro

Paired on shared wording: life, materials.

Also on the record

1. Upon graduation from CU/Boulder, Hieb went to NASA/JSC to work in crew procedures development and crew activity planning.
2. He worked in the Mission Control Center on the ascent team for STS-1, and during rendezvous phases on numerous subsequent flights.
3. He has an extensive background in on-orbit procedures development, particularly in rendezvous and proximity operations.
4. Selected by NASA as an astronaut candidate in June 1985, Hieb qualified July 1986 for assignment as a mission specialist on future Space Shuttle flight crews.

Other astronauts with this card

• Daniel W. Bursch — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• David A. Wolf — NASA Group 13 · Former · 3 flights
• John-David F. Bartoe — NASA Group 11 · Former · 1 flight
• Sidney M. Gutierrez — NASA Group 10 · Former · 2 flights

FAQ

What is Richard J. Hieb's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. September 21 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 J. Hieb's dates come from?

Birth date 1955-09-21 is the day-precision date on Richard J. Hieb's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 11 · 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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