NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Robert C. Springer's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs
The Creative Messenger
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
Robert Clyde Springer (born May 21, 1942) is a retired American astronaut and test pilot who flew as a mission specialist on two NASA Space Shuttle missions in 1989 and 1990. The birth-card coordinate for May 21 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Robert C. Springer's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative 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 Robert C. Springer. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.
Robert C. Springer in the public record
A decorated aviator in the United States Marine Corps, Springer also flew more than 500 combat sorties during the Vietnam War. He has logged over 237 hours in space and 4,500 hours flying time, including 3,500 hours in jet aircraft. Springer was born May 21, 1942, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout. He graduated from Ashland High School in Ashland, Ohio in 1960. He received a commission in the U.S. Marine Corps following his 1964 graduation from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland with a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Science.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert C. Springer (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 of Hearts
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 Robert C. Springer, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Robert C. Springer's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- J♣ — Birth Card: The Creative Messenger
- 10♥ — Karma — Environment: The Community Heart
- J♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Successful Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 7♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Questioning Mind
- 9♦ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Universal Provider
- 8♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Emotional Powerhouse
- K♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealthy King
- 6♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Nurturing Creator
- 6♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Responsible Mind
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.
You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.
His technical assignments included support crew for STS-3, concept development studies for the Space Operations Center, and the coordination of various aspects of the final development of the Remote Manipulator System ("Canadarm") for operational use.
Paired on shared wording: center, included.
Also on the record
- Springer attended The Basic School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia before reporting to the Naval Air Training Command for flight training at Pensacola, Florida and Beeville, Texas.
- Upon receiving his aviator wings in August 1966, he was assigned to VMFA-513 at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.
- There Springer flew F-4 Phantom II fighters.
- He was subsequently assigned to VMFA-115 at Chu Lai in South Vietnam, where he completed 300 F-4 combat missions.
Other astronauts with this card
- Manley Lanier Carter Jr. — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Scott D. Altman — NASA Group 15 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is Robert C. Springer's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. May 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 Robert C. Springer's dates come from?
- Birth date 1942-05-21 is the day-precision date on Robert C. Springer's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 9 · Former · 2 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 (Robert C. Springer) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2036753) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert C. Springer). Birth date 1942-05-21 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).