Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Job Camp gives today’s students permission to imagine themselves in tomorrow’s jobs in space. (And maybe even to become a Humannaire, one of the world’s first kid astronauts!) — Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Job Camp 2021 at Shetland Space Centre is looking for students ages 10–12* who are space STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics)-directed and determined to become space professional, and students who who are serious about becoming one of the Humannaires, the next-generation of space explorers from Planet…

United Launch Alliance and Astronaut Teacher reveal The HUMANNAIRES Initiative in recognition of student accomplishments on One Year Mark of US Pandemic Quarantine — April 12, 2021 CAPE CANAVERAL, FL — In 2020, US students went home for spring break and never went back. Now a solid year later, as vaccinations and new safety practices have allowed students and teachers to begin their return to schools across the US, space author/educator Mike Mongo and…

Reframe the pandemic, “Quarantine is space mission training!” — 2020 is a year like no other in human history. No, rather it is like all the years in human history. Every challenge we have ever faced as a species has united and the threat we now face is existential. That said, I have no doubt we shall emerge victorious…

Three one-hour classes of Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Adventures — Everyday, the number one question I am asked by students around the world, “How can I be an Astronaut?” For one week on my YouTube channel Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Adventures, I am dedicating myself to answering and imparting the skills for today’s students to secure tomorrow’s jobs in space. And…

Yuri’s Night celebrates the human exploration of space. Coronavirus pandemic has transformed our earthling homes into our personal spaceships. Get ready to party like an astronaut! — Yuri’s Night, the annual “do it yourself” space holiday celebrated around the world on-or-around April 12, may be the first party naturally suited for planet earth’s new pandemic lifestyle. In fact, Yuri’s Night has already been celebrated by the most socially-distanced, self-isolated human beings of all time:

Short answer: No. (But it sure was a lot of fun!) — Beginning in June of 2019, and wrapping up in November of the same year, upon invitation, I looked into and took up the leadership training program called Mastery In Transformational Training. Mastery in Transformational Training–aka M.I.T.T. aka Mastery–is a leadership training. I’ve done plenty of leadership training in my life…

Once upon a time in America-meets-New Space — Johnny Appleseed was a real person. And now 245 years after his birth, he’s heading to Space. The individual we know as Johnny Appleseed was born John Chapman. John Chapman was born in 1774, two years before the Constitution was signed, and died seventy years later in 1845, the year…

Saturday, April 13, Kennedy Space Center…it’s the 2019 return of Yuri’s Night Space Coast underneath Space Shuttle Atlantis — “Dance underneath the Space Shuttle Atlantis” maybe the best engineered wind-up ever for a Space Coast space party. This year, Yuri’s Night Space Coast returns to Kennedy Space Center, Saturday, April 13, 8pm-12:30am, bringing astronauts, scientists, artists, and space celebrities–in costumes!–to the hottest April party ticket in Florida: a Yuri’s…