Pop star Benson Boone performed last month at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden, in Merritt Island, Florida. The Nov. 29 performance was at the second event of the Visa Live series, a “global music experience” with exclusive shows hosted at “iconic locations” by Visa, the payment card company.
This year’s Visa Live event occured after dark and featured Boone performing under the stars and surrounded by rockets. The show will be held in the Rocket Garden of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, an outdoor display of historic rockets from the NASA space program.
Tickets were not available for this experience. However, Florida residents aged 18 or older had the opportunity to win free tickets to the event early in November.
Boone will not be the first artist to perform at the Kennedy Space Center. To celebrate the visitor center’s 30th anniversary in 1997, country band Diamond Rio and singer Clay Walker put on a free show at the Rocket Garden for visitors. Similarly, NASA celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 with a series of live concerts at the Kennedy Space Center and a range of music going all the way back to the 1960s. The music was intended to highlight NASA’s accomplishments over the past decades.
The Visa Live series began last year with the event held in May 2024 in Paris, France, featuring Post Malone as the headliner. Post Malone was not alone. Before he took the stage at the Cour Carrée in the Louvre, artists Kungs, RaiNao, and Ayra Star began the show.
There were 4,000 lucky Parisians in attendance who won the ticket lottery. Meanwhile, thousands of fans across the globe watched artists perform live on the gaming platform, Roblox. The concert drew attention to the City of Lights just months before the 2024 Summer Olympics were held there.
Boone, who first stepped into the spotlight as a contestant on “American Idol,” has had a successful music career with viral hits like “Beautiful Things” and “Mystical Magical.” He just concluded the European leg of his world tour for his “American Heart” album, which was released this summer.
Boone’s performance at the Kennedy Space Center was not his first time in Florida. In fact, his “American Heart” world tour included three stops in the state. He had shows in Tampa, Miami, and Orlando this September. The VISA Live event in Merritt Island marked Boone’s fourth concert in Florida this year. However, the Rocket Garden show was surely a unique out-of-this-world experience for both the lucky fans attending in person and those tuned in at home.