Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds

In the record

Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor (born April 9, 1976) is an American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for April 9 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Queen of Diamonds coordinate

Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.

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Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor in the public record

She visited the International Space Station (ISS) during Expedition 56/57. After returning, she transitioned to a management role within NASA, where she handles medical issues aboard the station. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Auñón-Chancellor spent her childhood in Colorado. She has stated that her enthusiasm for opportunity and perseverance was influenced by her father, Jorge Auñón, who was a Cuban exile who emigrated to the United States. She participated in scientific contests and advanced math classes as a child, showing an interest in both engineering and medicine. She has stated that she took a dual route in engineering and medicine because she was fascinated by both problem-solving and caring for people. Auñón-Chancellor attended Poudre High School in Fort Collins, Colorado, from which she graduated in 1993. She holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University, an M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in 2001, and an M.P.H. degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in 2006.

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

Where the record meets the 3 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 Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Ability to see what needs fixing

Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor (born April 9, 1976) is an American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: engineer, physician.

Also on the record

1. She completed a three-year residency in internal medicine at UTMB in Galveston, Texas, in 2004, and then completed an additional year as Chief Resident.
2. She also completed an aerospace medicine residency at UTMB.
3. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Aerospace Medicine.
4. Auñón-Chancellor was hired by NASA as a flight surgeon in 2006 and spent over nine months in Russia supporting medical operations for International Space Station astronauts.

Other astronauts with this card

• Donald E. Williams — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
• F. Curtis Michel — NASA Group 4 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Harrison H. Schmitt — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
• Kenneth D. Cockrell — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
• Norman E. Thagard — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
• Richard A. Searfoss — NASA Group 13 · Deceased · 3 flights
• Richard O. Covey — NASA Group 8 · Former · 4 flights
• Tamara E. Jernigan — NASA Group 11 · Former · 5 flights
• Timothy L. Kopra — NASA Group 18 · Former · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor's birth card?

The Queen of Diamonds. April 9 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 Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor's dates come from?

Birth date 1976-04-09 is the day-precision date on Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 20 · Management · 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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