SAXAVORD SPACEPORT
UK’s First-Ever Vertical Launch Facility
Unst, Shetland, Scotland
MIKE MONGO’S
ASTRONAUT JOB CAMP
2023
at SaxaVord Spaceport
Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Job Camp is staged LIVE from SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst in Shetland, Scotland.
Astronaut Job Camp is the world’s only Astronaut Training Camp for Kids*
AJC is 03 July - 27 July, 2023
*ages 9-14 (exceptions made ONLY with prior approval)
Mike Mongo’s Astronaut Job Camp is the virtual summer camp for students age 9-14 who want to grow up to live, work, and play in space!
Learning with actual space and astronaut professionals from around the world, students discover what it takes to pursue traditional and non-traditional careers in space–including space engineer, space artists, space trades, space athletes, space gamers, and even space YouTuber.
Student attendees get to participate in their very own analog astronaut space missions–while building valuable relationships with space STEAM-directed peers, potentially creating budding relationships and experiences that will last their lifetimes and ready them for tomorrow’s jobs in space!.
Curriculum & Schedule*
*PLEASE NOTE: Schedule, guests, topics, & order subject to change.
1st Week
DAY 1
Special Guest: ALYSSA CARSON
INTRO TO MISSION - At the start of camp, campers are introduced to the reframing of pandemic quarantine as space mission training, provided with personalized United Launch Alliance (US rocket ship builder) HUMANNAIRES future space explorer Letter of Accomplishment and Certificate of Acknowledgment–with special guest Alyssa Carson, space enthusiast and “future Mars walker”. Assignments include the naming of their personal spacecraft, their kid astronaut AND ground control job career AND notable space hobbies which are to be included in their personal mission dossier and space mission report.
1st Week
Day 2
Bina48
World’s first humanoid robot AI training as an Astronaut
A special treat for this year’s student attendees of Astronaut Job Camp.
Bina48 represents “A.I”, artificial intelligence and Astronaut Intelligence! As the first-ever humanoid robot AI training as an astronaut, Bina48 represents the future of space exploration, humans and robots together in space.
Together we will discover what it means to work with AI and to experience the kind of important new experiences astronauts will be able to have with fellow astronauts who are AI.
2nd Week
Day 3
Special guest: TBA
2nd Week
Day 4
Special guest: TBA
3rd Week
Day 5
Special guest: Space+5 Commercial Crew
Meet the crew Mike Mongo trained with for Uplift Aerospace’s Space+5! Ruben Salinas, Trent Tresch, Joan Melendez Misner, and Sydney Hamilton are all working space professionals who will bring their personal experience of training together for space!
Learn about emergency spacecraft egress training at Bioshere 2 and Arizona State University. Learn about Zero-G training and parabolic flights from Kennedy Space Center with Bina48, the first humanoid robot AI to train as an astronaut. Learn about the International Astronautical Congress, where astronauts and training astronauts meet annually.
Most of all, learn what it takes to play as a team from Mike’s own crewmates, and what it takes to train as an astronaut!
3rd Week
Day 6
SaxaVord Spaceport, UK Space, and YOU
Where do we see Space in our lives today and where we will see it tomorrow? How does Space connect with and play into countries such as Scotland, United Kingdom, and others? We discover all the ways Space connects all of Earth.
How space connects with each of us. We discover how to connect space with our friends, family, classmates, neighbors, and community. Identifying space in our everyday lives and in our communities.
PLUS: Introduction to the world’s biggest space party, Yuri’s Night–party planning for Yuri’s Night 2022.
4th Week
Day 7
Special Guest: Dr Sian Proctor
“Solve for space, solve for Earth!”
We can solve all the challenges we face on earth–even the illusion of scarcity–by solving for space.
Featuring astronaut and mission pilot, geology professor, and artist Dr Sian Proctor, the next human being to go to space–aboard the SpaceX Inspiration 4 mission, September 2021.
4th Week
Day 8
Special guest: TBA
“Have spacesuit, will travel!”
We wrap up our four-week training adventure with prizes, art, games, acknowledgements, certificates, NFTs, networking, declarations, mentorships, friendships, and sharing.
This final day is the culmination for four weeks of living, working, and playing at actual astronaut training. Be there!