MTV Lands Moon Man Statue In The Rocket Garden At Kennedy Space Center

MTV is celebrating 40 years on the air this year, and we’re all thankful for those 17 years of music videos. Now to celebrate their milestone of broadcasting, whatever they’re broadcasting these days, they’ve planted a Moon Man statue in the Rocket Garden at Kennedy Space Center. It makes sense especially since MTV “launched” with that iconic video of the rocket launches, and astronauts on the moon planting the MTV flag. Check out a video of MTV’s very first hour, except without the videos because, well, I guess they don’t play them anymore.

I’m all for encouraging kids to get into science and math and be the next innovators of our world for sure. Although I’m a little concerned someone will attempt a home made rocket just to get on Ridiculousness, the same way lots of people hurt themselves doing stunts trying to get on Jackass a few years back. But this will undoubtedly inspire some kids to dream big and I think that’s awesome!

By the way Jackass has a new movie coming out this year and I am so gonna see it!

OK, sorry, I got a little distracted there.

Here’s NASA’s lead planetary protection engineer for the Mars 2020 missions, Moogega Cooper telling us how she feels the MTV statue helps tell the story of NASA and breaking boundaries like MTV did when it launched.