NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Scott D. Altman'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
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman (born August 15, 1959) is a retired United States Navy Captain and naval aviator, engineer, test pilot and former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for August 15 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Jack of Clubs coordinate
Scott D. Altman'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 Scott D. Altman. 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.
Scott D. Altman in the public record
He is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. In 2018, he was inducted into the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame. As of November 2022, he is the president of the Space operating group for ASRC Federal. Altman was born in Lincoln, Illinois. He is married to the former Jill Shannon Loomer of Tucson, Arizona and has three children, the second oldest of whom graduated Rice University in Houston, Texas in May 2009. He is a resident of Pekin, Illinois, along with his parents, Fred and Sharon Altman. The Pekin District 108 school board voted to honor the former astronaut by naming Scott Altman Primary School in 2010.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Scott Altman (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Jack of Diamonds
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 Scott D. Altman, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Scott D. Altman'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)
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, J♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.
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 try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.
Then the skipper got together and tried to pick four guys that he thought, were mature enough, I guess, to handle, you know, the capability that they were being given in working with the movie, and all the things that were required.
Paired on shared wording: enough, know, working.
Also on the record
- Scott's sister Sarah Beardsley is the publisher of Venus Zine, a women's music, DIY and culture multi-media company.
- He is a brother of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
- 1977: Graduated from Pekin Community High School in Pekin, Illinois 1981: Received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity 1990: Received a Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from the U.S.
- Naval Postgraduate School After being rejected from the United States Air Force for being too tall, Altman instead enlisted in the United States Navy.
Other astronauts with this card
- Manley Lanier Carter Jr. — NASA Group 10 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Robert C. Springer — NASA Group 9 · Former · 2 flights
FAQ
- What is Scott D. Altman's birth card?
- The Jack of Clubs. August 15 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 Scott D. Altman's dates come from?
- Birth date 1959-08-15 is the day-precision date on Scott D. Altman's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 15 · Former · 4 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 (Scott D. Altman) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q382247) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Scott Altman). Birth date 1959-08-15 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).