NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Robert L. Gibson's Birth Card: The 5 of Hearts
The Restless Heart
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 Lee "Hoot" Gibson (born October 30, 1946) is a former American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. The birth-card coordinate for October 30 is the 5 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 5 of Hearts coordinate
Robert L. Gibson's birthday maps to the 5 of Hearts (The Restless Heart). 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 L. Gibson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let love change shape without using motion as a way out of being seen.
Robert L. Gibson in the public record
A retired NASA astronaut, he also served as Chief of the Astronaut Office from 1992 to 1997. Today Gibson is active as a professional pilot, racing regularly at the annual Reno Air Races. He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2003 and the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2013, and has received several military decorations throughout his career. Gibson was born October 30, 1946, in Cooperstown, New York. He graduated from Huntington High School, Huntington, New York as a part of the Class of 1964, and went on to earn an Associate degree in engineering science from Suffolk County Community College in 1966. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from California Polytechnic State University in 1969. Gibson entered active duty with the U.S.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert L. Gibson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 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 L. Gibson, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Robert L. Gibson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♥ — Birth Card: The Restless Heart
- 5♣ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Innovator
- 4♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Foundation Builder
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 9♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Compassionate Idealist
- 9♦ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Universal Provider
- 7♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Skeptical Investor
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Master Leader
- J♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Successful Messenger
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 stay kind without picking up what is not yours. You're wired for a love that extends beyond the personal—compassion for people, causes, and the world. You feel others' pain as your own and are moved to ease it. At your best, you carry deep wisdom about what to hold and what to release.
Bolden, his copilot on STS-61-C, described Gibson and John Young as the two best pilots he had met "in my life in aviation, over thirty-five years; never met two people like them.
Paired on shared wording: best, people.
Also on the record
- Navy in 1969.
- He was commissioned through the Aviation Officer Candidate School (AOCS), and proceed to flight training.
- He received basic and primary flight training at Naval Air Station Pensacola and Naval Air Station Saufley Field, Florida, and Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi.
- He completed advanced flight training at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas and was assigned to Fighter Squadron 121 (VF-121) at Naval Air Station Miramar, California for replacement training in the F-4 Phantom II.
Other astronauts with this card
- Barbara R. Morgan — NASA Group 17 · Former · 1 flight
- Ronald J. Garan Jr. — NASA Group 18 · Former · 2 flights
- Sandra H. Magnus — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is Robert L. Gibson's birth card?
- The 5 of Hearts. October 30 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 L. Gibson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-10-30 is the day-precision date on Robert L. Gibson's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 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 L. Gibson) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q498775) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert L. Gibson). Birth date 1946-10-30 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).