Thomas D. Akers's Birth Card: The Queen of Clubs

In the record

Thomas Dale Akers (born May 20, 1951) is a former American astronaut in NASA's Space Shuttle program. The birth-card coordinate for May 20 is the Queen of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The Queen of Clubs coordinate

Thomas D. Akers's birthday maps to the Queen of Clubs (The Nurturing Leader). 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 Thomas D. Akers. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You teach from what you actually know, without making people earn the right to hear it.

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Thomas D. Akers in the public record

Akers was the valedictorian of his 29-member 1969 senior class from Eminence, Missouri. He worked summers as a park ranger in the 80,000 acre federal wilderness that borders Eminence. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) with B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied mathematics in 1973 and 1975, respectively. At the age of 24, he returned to Eminence to become its high school principal. In 1979, when a United States Air Force recruiter left brochures on his desk for his students, it was Akers who decided to sign up. While stationed at Eglin AFB, FL, Akers taught math and physics classes at Troy State University for a two years. He graduated from the USAF Test Pilot School as a flight test engineer in 1983 and has over 2,500 hours of back seat flight time in over 25 different aircraft. He was selected for the astronaut program in 1987 and officially became an astronaut in 1988.

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

Where the record meets the Queen 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 Thomas D. Akers, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

Deep wisdom and thoughtful guidance

He graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) with B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied mathematics in 1973 and 1975, respectively.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: mathematics.

Also on the record

1. Akers is a veteran of four shuttle flights in which he spent over 800 hours in orbit, including more than 29 hours of extra-vehicular activity (EVA) experience.
2. In each of his flights, his role was as a mission specialist.
3. His first space flight was in 1990 on STS-41, the 11th flight of Space Shuttle Discovery.
4. He was instrumental in deploying the European Space Agency satellite Ulysses, a solar-exploration craft, as well as tending several secondary payloads and experiments.

Other astronauts with this card

• Dale A. Gardner — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
• David C. Hilmers — NASA Group 9 · Former · 4 flights
• David M. Walker — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 4 flights
• John M. Fabian — NASA Group 8 · Former · 2 flights
• Jon A. McBride — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 1 flight
• Kenneth S. Reightler Jr. — NASA Group 12 · Former · 2 flights
• Margaret Rhea Seddon — NASA Group 8 · Former · 3 flights
• Mark C. Lee — NASA Group 10 · Former · 4 flights
• Rex J. Walheim — NASA Group 16 · Former · 3 flights
• Scott J. Horowitz — NASA Group 14 · Former · 4 flights
• Susan J. Helms — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights

FAQ

What is Thomas D. Akers's birth card?

The Queen of Clubs. May 20 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 Thomas D. Akers's dates come from?

Birth date 1951-05-20 is the day-precision date on Thomas D. Akers's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 12 · 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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