NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Story Musgrave's Birth Card: The 7 of Clubs
The Analytical Creator
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
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for August 19 is the 7 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 7 of Clubs coordinate
Story Musgrave's birthday maps to the 7 of Clubs (The Analytical 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 Story Musgrave. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take a claim apart until the usable piece is left, then you use it.
Story Musgrave in the public record
He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees along with astronaut Lee Morin. Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown aboard all five Space Shuttle orbiters. Musgrave was born August 19, 1935, the son of Percy Musgrave Jr. and Marguerite Warton Musgrave (née Swann). He grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown. Musgrave attended Dexter School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts, from 1947 to 1953. He dropped out of St.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Story Musgrave (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 7 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 Story Musgrave, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Story Musgrave's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 7♣ — Birth Card: The Analytical Creator
- J♠ — Karma — Environment: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Businessman
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Mercury
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- J♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 9♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- K♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♦ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, 7♣, 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.
Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition
In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees along with astronaut Lee Morin.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: academic.
Also on the record
- Mark's in his senior year when a car accident "caused him to miss a substantial amount of vital pre-graduation exam schooling." After leaving high school, Musgrave enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1953.
- He served as an aviation electrician, instrument technician and aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments in Korea, Japan and Hawaii, and aboard the carrier USS Wasp in the Far East.
- Musgrave's aviator brother Percy (1933–1959), who also served on USS Wasp, died on a mission when the carrier "ran over him" after a takeoff crash.
- Although he did not qualify as a pilot until completing his stipulated astronaut training, Musgrave has flown 17,700 hours in 160 different types of civilian and military aircraft, including 7,500 hours in jet aircraft.
Other astronauts with this card
- Edgar D. Mitchell — NASA Group 5 · Deceased · 1 flight
- Ellen S. Baker — NASA Group 10 · Former · 3 flights
- Michael J. Foreman — NASA Group 17 · Former · 2 flights
- Thomas P. Stafford — NASA Group 2 · Deceased · 4 flights
- William A. Oefelein — NASA Group 17 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Story Musgrave's birth card?
- The 7 of Clubs. August 19 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 Story Musgrave's dates come from?
- Birth date 1935-08-19 is the day-precision date on Story Musgrave's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 6 · Former · 6 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 (Story Musgrave) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q462132) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Story Musgrave). Birth date 1935-08-19 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).