NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Robert Shane Kimbrough's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds
The Wealthy King
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 Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for June 4 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The King of Diamonds coordinate
Robert Shane Kimbrough's birthday maps to the King of Diamonds (The Wealthy King). 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 Shane Kimbrough. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.
Robert Shane Kimbrough in the public record
He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft. He was the commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 50, and returned to Earth in April 2017. He is married to the former Robbie Lynn Nickels. Born June 4, 1967, in Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough graduated from The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia in 1985. Kimbrough graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering. He played for the West Point baseball team for four years, and was selected as team captain his senior year. Kimbrough served as an Apache helicopter pilot in the first Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Shane Kimbrough (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 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 Robert Shane Kimbrough, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Robert Shane Kimbrough's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- K♦ — Birth Card: The Wealthy King
- 7♠ — Karma — Environment: The Questioning Mind
- 3♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 8♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 6♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 10♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 10♦ — 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.
Penetrating questions and inquiry
Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Space Shuttle flight, and the second being a six-month mission to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz craft.
Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: craft, veteran.
Also on the record
- Kimbrough later attended and graduated from Georgia Tech with a M.S. in operations research in 1998.
- In 2000, he joined NASA and was assigned as a Flight Simulation Engineer on the Shuttle Training Aircraft where he helped NASA train astronauts on landing procedures for several years before he himself was selected for training in 2004.
- He retired from the U.S.
- Army with the rank of colonel.
Other astronauts with this card
- David C. Leestma — NASA Group 9 · Former · 3 flights
- Donald A. Thomas — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
- Linda M. Godwin — NASA Group 11 · Former · 4 flights
- Shannon W. Lucid — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Wendy B. Lawrence — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
FAQ
- What is Robert Shane Kimbrough's birth card?
- The King of Diamonds. June 4 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 Shane Kimbrough's dates come from?
- Birth date 1967-06-04 is the day-precision date on Robert Shane Kimbrough's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 19 · 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 (Robert Shane Kimbrough) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q520176) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Shane Kimbrough). Birth date 1967-06-04 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).