Shannon W. Lucid's Birth Card: The King of Diamonds

In the record

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (née Wells; born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for January 14 is the King of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The King of Diamonds coordinate

Shannon W. Lucid'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 Shannon W. Lucid. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the system and you can show your work.

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Shannon W. Lucid in the public record

She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space station Mir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed on Mir. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a woman. She was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996, making her the tenth person and the first woman to be accorded the honor. Lucid is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, where she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1963, a master's degree in biochemistry in 1970, and a PhD in biochemistry in 1973. She was a laboratory technician at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1964 to 1966, a research chemist at Kerr-McGee from 1966 to 1968, and a research associate at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1973 to 1978. In 1978, Lucid was recruited by NASA for astronaut training with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first class of astronauts to include women. She flew in space five times: on STS-51-G, STS-34, STS-43, STS-58, and her mission to Mir, for which Lucid traveled to the space station on Space Shuttle Atlantis with STS-76 and returned six months later with STS-79. She was the NASA Chief Scientist from 2002 to 2003 and a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) at Mission Control for numerous Space Shuttle missions, including STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.

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

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for K♦, 7♠, 3♣, 8♣, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥, A♦, Q♦, 5♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a spaceflight.

Also on the record

1. Lucid announced her retirement from NASA in 2012.

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
• Robert Shane Kimbrough — NASA Group 19 · Former · 3 flights
• Wendy B. Lawrence — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights

FAQ

What is Shannon W. Lucid's birth card?

The King of Diamonds. January 14 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 Shannon W. Lucid's dates come from?

Birth date 1943-01-14 is the day-precision date on Shannon W. Lucid's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 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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