Sally K. Ride's Birth Card: The 6 of Clubs

In the record

Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist. The birth-card coordinate for May 26 is the 6 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 6 of Clubs coordinate

Sally K. Ride's birthday maps to the 6 of Clubs (The Nurturing Creator). 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 Sally K. Ride. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You pass on what you know without disappearing behind the lesson.

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Sally K. Ride in the public record

Born in Southern California, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983, became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space. She was the youngest American astronaut to have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 (both in physics) for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium. She was selected as a mission specialist astronaut with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of NASA astronauts to include women. After completing her training in 1979, she served as the ground-based capsule communicator (CapCom) for the second and third Space Shuttle flights, and helped develop the Space Shuttle's robotic arm. In June 1983, she flew in space on the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission. The mission deployed two communications satellites and the first Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1). Ride operated the robotic arm to deploy and retrieve SPAS-1.

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

Where the record meets the 6 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 Sally K. Ride, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Natural teaching and mentoring ability

Ride was a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1973, a Master of Science degree in 1975, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1978 (both in physics) for research on the interaction of X-rays with the interstellar medium.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: literature, philosophy, physics, research.

Also on the record

1. Her second space flight was the STS-41-G mission in 1984, also on board Challenger.
2. She spent a total of more than 343 hours in space.
3. She left NASA in 1987.
4. Ride worked for two years at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Arms Control, then at the University of California, San Diego, primarily researching nonlinear optics and Thomson scattering.

Other astronauts with this card

• Charles Lacy Veach — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 2 flights
• Ellison S. Onizuka — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• James H. Newman — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• Jerome Apt III — NASA Group 11 · Former · 4 flights
• Kenneth T. Ham — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
• Paul S. Lockhart — NASA Group 16 · Former · 2 flights
• Steven A. Hawley — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights

FAQ

What is Sally K. Ride's birth card?

The 6 of Clubs. May 26 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 Sally K. Ride's dates come from?

Birth date 1951-05-26 is the day-precision date on Sally K. Ride's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 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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