Thomas D. Jones's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Thomas David Jones (born January 22, 1955) is a former United States astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for January 22 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Thomas D. Jones's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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. Jones. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Thomas D. Jones in the public record

He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four Space Shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996, and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes. He works as a planetary scientist, space operations consultant, astronaut speaker, and author. Jones was born January 22, 1955, in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, in 1973; he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Basic Sciences from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977, and a Doctorate in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona in 1988. Jones is a Distinguished Eagle Scout. A distinguished graduate of the USAF Academy, Jones served on active duty as an Air Force officer for six years.

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

Where the record meets the 4 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 Thomas D. Jones, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.

You build a floor that lasts and still let money move when the work requires it. You build secure, stable financial foundations. You're good with systems, planning, and long-term security. Your mind thinks in terms of legacy and stability.

Jones performed advanced program planning for NASA's Solar System Exploration Division, investigating future robotic missions to Mars, asteroids, and the outer Solar System.

Paired on shared wording: planning, system. This line comes from the Result / Cosmic Reward position of the 5♦'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

1. After pilot training in Oklahoma, he flew strategic bombers at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.
2. As pilot and aircraft commander of a B-52 D Stratofortress, he led a combat crew of six, accumulating over 2,000 hours of jet experience before resigning as a captain in 1983.
3. From 1983 to 1988, Jones worked toward a Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
4. His research interests included the remote sensing of asteroids, meteorite spectroscopy, and applications of space resources.

Other astronauts with this card

• Bryan D. O’Connor — NASA Group 9 · Former · 2 flights
• Carl E. Walz — NASA Group 13 · Former · 4 flights
• David M. Brown — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · 1 flight
• Donald R. McMonagle — NASA Group 12 · Former · 3 flights
• Fernando Caldeiro — NASA Group 16 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
• Jeffrey A. Hoffman — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
• William G. Gregory — NASA Group 13 · Former · 1 flight

FAQ

What is Thomas D. Jones's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. January 22 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. Jones's dates come from?

Birth date 1955-01-22 is the day-precision date on Thomas D. Jones's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 13 · 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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