Mike Mongo
@mikemongo.bsky.social
Astronaut Teacher. Author. Artist. Single dad. Mike Mongo’s KID Astronaut Training Manual SHIPPING NOW KidAstronaut.com
Billions of years ago, a rogue, Pluto-like body nearly slammed into Neptune. Most of Neptune's satellites were shattered or scattered in the melee. But a new study indicates there was one survivor: a wayward moon named Nereid. 🔭🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dear parents who have kids who love space and astronauts: Summer reading sorted! KidAstronaut.com
With 'Israel and Palestine' trending at #1 on Mother's Day, let me say James Baldwin had it exactly right: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." 🧵
'We come here to swarm Come by sea Swarm like smoke in the dawn We were the young We were the swarm Radiolarians' - Amdrew Bird, Masterswarm, 2009 (thanks to @element115.bsky.social for the rec)
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe ancestors of these 140 million-year-old radiolaria single-celled fossils lived in Earth's oceans while the Moon's crust was creaking and cracking with tectonic forces. These microscopic beings swam under moonlight and sunlight, sensing their own astronomy. (Image credit: Robin et al 2010) 🧪
This wonderful astronaut book for kids, by @mikemongo.bsky.social, is exactly what we need right now. 🧪
Mike Mongo@mikemongo.bsky.social · 7mo agoThank you, Alice, it has been some journey! And to get here now, wow!
Writing Mike Mongo’s KID Astronaut Training Manual while raising two young children as a single dad was the best bet I ever made on myself.
Blue Origin was able to stick the landing at sea with a previously flown rocket booster - which is a first for the New Glenn launch system. However, the satellite that was launched didn't reach its intended orbit, and the company says it's assessing the situation. www.geekwire.com/2026/blue-or...
In a first, Blue Origin uses a recycled rocket to send a satellite into space — but it ends up in ‘off-nominal orbit’
Blue Origin used a previously flown rocket booster for a satellite launch and landed it again, but the satellite went into the wrong orbit.
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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen just came back from the Moon. Right now kids everywhere are WATCHING. If your kid is one of them I wrote this book for them: Mike Mongo’s KID Astronaut Training Manual. Link in bio.
While the Artemis 2 crew was flying to the Moon and back, kids were reading my book about how the Moon is their neighborhood. MEarth is real. The future is now. KidAstronaut.com
Guess who’s new book got selected for review in the print edition of @publisherswkly.bsky.social? THAT’S RIGHT IT’S MIIIIIINE🥹🙏🏽🤗 Mike Mongo’s KID Astronaut Training Manual, available where books are sold!
Mike Mongo’s KID Astronaut Training Manual–available March 30, 2026 where books are sold KidAstronaut.com
if ICE is actually going to be out there thugging people at airports SF conventions and stuff better start prepping the whole virtual attendance thing again because there's whole swathes of panelists who aren't going to want to do flights for a bit
I still love movies but watching the adaption for Project Hail Mary would ruin what my own imagination brewed up for me while I was reading it
Speaking of The Peripheral on Amazon Prime which I never saw I am re-reading the book again for the 20th time
🤯 Being a futurist, I like to build Potential. - ‘Mad’ Mike Banks / UR youtu.be/5ErxKvL_zzU?...
"Somewhere in Detroit": Underground Resistance, Submerge, Techno and the Detroit Way
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The single most overlooked teaching of the Christian Bible is “…love your neighbor as yourself AS GOD SO LOVES YOU👏🏽👏🏽”
I ain'ta buying nothing from no Target. I half way know these people and anything affiliated woth Nina Turner, I ain't going with. Her judgment is at the best flawed.
Author Myron J. Clifton@deardean22.bsky.social · 8mo agoNo one is listening to Tina Turner for anything.. And Target is foolish for believing she and the others have any say so on what Black folk will do.
At this point it's barely even a boycott, I've just stopped thinking of Target as a place to buy the things I used to buy at Target.
Florida Chris@chrislongview.bsky.social · 8mo agotarget paid a bunch of money to people who claim they speak for everyone but have no actual influence over those of us boycotting to tell everyone the boycott is over? they will do anything but apologize and fix their policy. i will continue to boycott.
It’s just so shameful and cruel. It’s so hard to comprehend the fact that there are still millions of Fox-addled Americans who still support this wicked administration, and somehow believe that locking up talented children is protecting us from criminal invaders. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community
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Speaking as the author, unsolicited book reviews are the best reviews.
Shouting @obeygiant.bsky.social bc 30 years ago Shepard sent me actual stacks of signed work on the strength of my part in OBEY. My buddy Weyland Southon of @kpfa.org had them all at his place in Oakland. After a bad time in my life he and I split and he held them. Karma please be good🙏🏽🙏🏽🙇🏽♂️
I have been following @seamus.bsky.social for a long time but I finally read this thread. Come for the ancient baking, stay for the humor. Worth the read!
Seamus Blackley@seamus.bsky.social · 4y agoI’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end. (this is an experiment in thread transfer)
“Is white identity in the room with us now?”
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9mo agoTrump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
