NASA astronaut · birth-card coordinate
Timothy L. Kopra's Birth Card: The Queen of Diamonds
The Prosperous Nurturer
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
Timothy Lennart Kopra (born April 9, 1963) is an American engineer, a colonel in the United States Army, and a retired NASA astronaut. The birth-card coordinate for April 9 is the Queen of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of a flight assignment.
The Queen of Diamonds coordinate
Timothy L. Kopra's birthday maps to the Queen of Diamonds (The Prosperous Nurturer). 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 Timothy L. Kopra. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You protect what you have without making every dollar a referendum on safety.
Timothy L. Kopra in the public record
He served aboard the International Space Station as a flight engineer for Expedition 20, returning to Earth aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-128 mission on September 11, 2009. He returned to the ISS for the second time in December 2015, as part of Expedition 46 and as the commander of Expedition 47. In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation. Kopra was born in Austin, Texas. Kopra is married to Dawn Kaye Lehman of Lewisburg, Kentucky, and they have two children, Matthew and Jacqueline. His mother, Martha A. Witthoft Kopra, resides in Austin, Texas. His father, Dr.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Timothy Kopra (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Queen 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 Timothy L. Kopra, and not a forecast of a spaceflight.
Cards in Timothy L. Kopra's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♦ — Birth Card: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 9♦ — Karma — Environment: The Universal Provider
- 3♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Success Communicator
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 3♠ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Sorrowful Truth
- J♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Successful Messenger
- 6♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Generous Provider
- 7♠ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Questioning Mind
- 2♣ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Collaborative Builder
- K♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Master Leader
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.
Natural ability to provide and nurture materially
In 2020, he was announced as the vice president of robotics and space operations at MDA Corporation.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: corporation.
Also on the record
- Lennart L.
- Kopra, died December 8, 1998.
- He is of Finnish descent on his father's side.
- His grandfather, Antti Kopra, born in Laavola, Valkjärvi, Karelia, and his grandmother, Ester Elisabet Saksinen, born in Helsinki, left Finland in 1914, immigrating to the United States.
Other astronauts with this card
- Donald E. Williams — NASA Group 8 · Deceased · 2 flights
- F. Curtis Michel — NASA Group 4 · Deceased · selected, no flights in the Fact Book table
- Harrison H. Schmitt — NASA Group 4 · Former · 1 flight
- Kenneth D. Cockrell — NASA Group 13 · Former · 5 flights
- Norman E. Thagard — NASA Group 8 · Former · 5 flights
- Richard A. Searfoss — NASA Group 13 · Deceased · 3 flights
- Richard O. Covey — NASA Group 8 · Former · 4 flights
- Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor — NASA Group 20 · Management · 1 flight
- Tamara E. Jernigan — NASA Group 11 · Former · 5 flights
FAQ
- What is Timothy L. Kopra's birth card?
- The Queen of Diamonds. April 9 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 Timothy L. Kopra's dates come from?
- Birth date 1963-04-09 is the day-precision date on Timothy L. Kopra's NASA astronaut biography (NASA Group 18 · Former · 1 flight), 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 (Timothy L. Kopra) + NASA Astronaut Fact Book (list of U.S. astronauts) + Wikidata CC0 (Q440303) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Timothy Kopra). Birth date 1963-04-09 is the NASA day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).