Frank Borman's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds

In the record

Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 28 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Frank Borman was born March 14, 1928. The birth-card coordinate for March 14 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of Frank Borman's 1968 TIME Person of the Year — The Apollo 8 astronauts (shared).

TIME Person of the Year record

• Frank Borman — 1968 TIME Person of the Year — The Apollo 8 astronauts · shared named human

Frank Borman's 1968 Wikipedia list row uses the choice label “The Apollo 8 astronauts” (Frank Borman is one of the named humans listed for that year). Frank Borman shares at least one TIME Person of the Year year in this pack with another named human. The harvested English Wikipedia title for Frank Borman matches the list name. Frank Borman is Wikidata Q18762. Honor years kept for Frank Borman: 1968. Choice labels kept: 1968 The Apollo 8 astronauts. Frank Borman's Wikipedia infobox day is 1928-03-14; Wikidata P569 is 1928-03-14 (match). TIME vault (https://time.com/vault/) is context for Frank Borman's honor and is not a date source. March 14 maps to 9♦ for Frank Borman. Wikidata P570 lists November 7, 2023 (2023-11-07) as a public death date for Frank Borman. The Wikipedia REST summary used for Frank Borman is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Borman. No childhood, private address, or invented birthday is added for Frank Borman.

The 9 of Diamonds coordinate

Frank Borman was born March 14, 1928 (1928-03-14). Month 3 and day 14 give solar value 35, which is the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1928 is unused, so Frank Borman's 1928 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Diamonds does not predict a TIME Person of the Year selection and is not a verdict on Frank Borman. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Diamonds, not a biography of Frank Borman: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back. You think about resources in terms of universal good and human need. You want to provide for humanity. Your vision is about abundance for all. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Diamonds: Visionary thinking about resource distribution; Generous impulse toward universal good; Ability to inspire others to contribute; Natural idealism about abundance. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Diamonds: Your curriculum is learning that you can't help anyone if you destroy yourself. You're learning to secure your own oxygen mask first.

Live 9 of Diamonds meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Frank Frederick Borman II was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 28 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Frank Borman in the public record

He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates Jim Lovell and William Anders, became the first of 28 humans to do so, for which he was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Four days before he graduated with the West Point Class of 1950, in which he was ranked eighth out of 670, Borman was commissioned in the USAF. He qualified as a fighter pilot and served in the Philippines. He earned a Master of Science degree at Caltech in 1957, and then became an assistant professor of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at West Point. In 1960, he was selected for Class 60-C at the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California and qualified as a test pilot. On graduation, he was accepted as one of five students in the first class at the Aerospace Research Pilot School. Borman was selected as a NASA astronaut with the second group, known as the Next Nine, in 1962. In 1966, he set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record as commander of Gemini 7.

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

Where the record meets the 9 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 Frank Borman, and not a forecast of the cover of Time.

Visionary thinking about resource distribution

Frank Frederick Borman II (March 14, 1928 – November 7, 2023) was an American United States Air Force (USAF) colonel, aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut, test pilot, and businessman.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: businessman.

Also on the record

1. He served on the NASA review board which investigated the Apollo 1 fire, and then flew to the Moon with Apollo 8 in December 1968.
2. The mission is known for the Earthrise photograph taken by Anders of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon as the Command/Service Module orbited the Moon, and for the reading from Genesis, which was televised to Earth from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve.
3. During the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, he was the NASA liaison at the White House, where he viewed the launch on television with President Richard Nixon.
4. After retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1970, Borman became senior vice president for operations at Eastern Air Lines.

Other TIME Person of the Year people with this card

• Andrew Grove — 1997 TIME Person of the Year — Andrew Grove
• Barack Obama — 2008 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama; 2012 TIME Person of the Year — Barack Obama
• Bono — 2005 TIME Person of the Year — The Good Samaritans (shared)
• George W. Bush — 2000 TIME Person of the Year — George W. Bush; 2004 TIME Person of the Year — George W. Bush
• Peter Ueberroth — 1984 TIME Person of the Year — Peter Ueberroth

FAQ

What is Frank Borman's birth card?

The 9 of Diamonds. March 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Frank Borman's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a TIME Person of the Year?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast magazine covers, character, or fate.

Where do Frank Borman's dates and TIME Person of the Year credits come from?

Birth date 1928-03-14 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Frank Borman, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia TIME Person of the Year list. Duals are split per named human. Abstractions, machines, and groups-as-concepts are omitted. The honor line is 1968 TIME Person of the Year — The Apollo 8 astronauts (shared). TIME vault is context only and is not used as a date source. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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