NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Thomas H. Marshburn's Birth Card: The 10 of Hearts
The Community Heart
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
Thomas Henry Marshburn (born August 29, 1960) is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for August 29 is the 10 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The 10 of Hearts coordinate
Thomas H. Marshburn's birthday maps to the 10 of Hearts (The Community Heart). 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 H. Marshburn. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room.
Thomas H. Marshburn in the public record
He is a veteran of three spaceflights to the International Space Station and holds the record for the oldest person to perform a spacewalk at 61 years old. Marshburn was born in Statesville, North Carolina, as the son of Robert Marshburn (1920–1988) and Gladys Marshburn (née Grier) (1923–2013). Marshburn graduated from Henderson High School in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1978. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1982, and a Master of Science degree in engineering physics from the University of Virginia in 1984. He received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Wake Forest University in 1989, and a Master of Medical Science degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1997. He trained in emergency medicine and worked in emergency rooms in Texas and Massachusetts. Marshburn's awards include the NASA Superior Achievement award (1998), Space and Life Sciences Division Special Space Flight Achievement Award (2003, 2004) and the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award (January 2004).
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Thomas Marshburn (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 10 of Hearts
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 H. Marshburn, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Thomas H. Marshburn's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 10♥ — Birth Card: The Community Heart
- 5♠ — Karma — Environment: The Restless Mind
- J♣ — Karma — Displacement: The Creative Messenger
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♠ — Life Spread — Venus
- A♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- A♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- Q♦ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
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.
You make room for a lot of people and still keep a self inside the room. Your heart works at scale—you create belonging for families, groups, and communities, not just individuals. You're the one who makes everyone feel included, the emotional center of gravity in a room. Love, for you, is something you build collectively.
He trained in emergency medicine and worked in emergency rooms in Texas and Massachusetts.
Paired on shared wording: rooms, worked.
Also on the record
- Marshburn is a member of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Aerospace Medical Association.
- After completing medical school, Marshburn trained in emergency medicine at the St.
- Vincent Hospital Emergency Medicine program in Toledo, Ohio, where he also worked as a flight physician.
- After three years of training, he was certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine in 1992.
Other astronauts with this card
- Russell L. Schweickart — NASA Group 3 · Former · 1 flight
FAQ
- What is Thomas H. Marshburn's birth card?
- The 10 of Hearts. August 29 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 H. Marshburn's dates come from?
- Birth date 1960-08-29 is the day-precision date on Thomas H. Marshburn's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 19 · Former · 3 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 (Thomas H. Marshburn) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q520384) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Thomas Marshburn). Birth date 1960-08-29 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).