"With the sale of the company came lots of stupid money. And with stupid money, you can do stupid things."

Stroll down the stairwell from the second-story Moon Room at Pineapples in Eau Gallie, and you’ll encounter an MTV-themed mural of an astronaut holding a flag on the lunar surface amid a cosmic backdrop.

Look closely: The astronaut’s spacesuit bears the name “S. Young” — and he sports a distinctive goatee behind his helmet visor. Life imitates art for Pineapples owner Steve Young, who opened the Highland Avenue three-story restaurant-bar-music venue in April 2021.The longtime Indialantic resident, who recently sold the telecommunications-installation giant Y-Com, has been selected for a seat on a future Blue Origin rocket-capsule trip into space.

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