NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Russell L. Schweickart's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts
The Community 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
Russell Louis Schweickart (born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S. The birth-card coordinate for October 25 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 10 of Hearts coordinate
Russell L. Schweickart's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community 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 Russell L. Schweickart. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.
Russell L. Schweickart in the public record
Air Force fighter pilot, business executive, and government executive. Schweickart was selected in 1963 for NASA's third astronaut group. He was the Lunar Module Pilot on the 1969 Apollo 9 mission, the first crewed flight test of the lunar module, on which he performed the first in-space test of the portable life support system used by the Apollo astronauts who walked on the Moon. As backup commander of the first crewed Skylab mission in 1973, he was responsible for developing the hardware and procedures used by the first crew to perform critical in-flight repairs of the Skylab station. After Skylab, he served for a time as Director of User Affairs in NASA's Office of Applications. Schweickart left NASA in 1977 to serve for two years as California Governor Jerry Brown's assistant for science and technology, then was appointed by Brown to California's Energy Commission for five and a half years, serving as chairman for three. In 1984–85, Schweickart co-founded the Association of Space Explorers and later in 2002 co-founded the B612 Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to defending Earth from asteroid impacts, along with fellow former astronaut Ed Lu and two planetary scientists. He served for a period as its chair before becoming its chair emeritus.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Rusty Schweickart (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Clubs
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 Russell L. Schweickart, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Russell L. Schweickart's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♥ — Birth Card: The Community Heart
- 5♠ — Karma — Environment: The Restless Mind
- J♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- A♥ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Emotional Pioneer
- 3♠ — Planetary Ruling Card (second ruler): The Sorrowful Truth
- 3♥ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Heart
- A♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Wealth Pioneer
- 7♣ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Analytical Creator
- 5♦ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♠ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Wise Guide
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.
Ability to inspire intellectual breakthroughs
Russell Louis Schweickart (born October 25, 1935) is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA astronaut, research scientist, U.S.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: research, scientist.
Other astronauts with this card
- Thomas H. Marshburn — NASA Group 19 · Former · 3 flights
FAQ
- What is Russell L. Schweickart's birth card?
- The 10 of Hearts. October 25 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 Russell L. Schweickart's dates come from?
- Birth date 1935-10-25 is the day-precision date on Russell L. Schweickart's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 3 · Former · 1 flight), 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 (Russell L. Schweickart) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q363506) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Rusty Schweickart). Birth date 1935-10-25 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).