NASA could start letting companies advertise on their rockets

[Dfthu]

Don't think this has been posted yet. NASA is thinking about branding rockets and letting astronauts do commercials. Here is a article https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/11/17798460/nasa-trump-advertisers-sponsors-product-placement-mission-revenue

[Bill Phil]

NASA is a government organization. I don't think they should advertise.

Contractor rockets, on the other hand, probably can...

[YNM]

I'm hazarding a guess that it's not even as bad as what is currently done - showing the satellite owner's company profile during commercial launches.

But on your head be it. If anything, contributing your product in an outer space exploration is the best advertising.

Edited September 12, 2018 by YNM

[Mad Rocket Scientist]

???

How would this be anywhere near worthwhile, considering how expensive rockets are, and that people would most likely be just annoyed by it? I, for one, can say that I would find it obnoxious. As the article says, it seems like ti would cheapen the agency. And putting the logo of the people who built the hardware on the side of it is a far stretch from selling it to the highest bidder. True, SpaceX airs what are essentially advertisements for the satellite they are launching, on the other hand that again has at least some relevance to what you're seeing. People would be rightfully peeved if SpaceX monetized their youtube channel, since they deal in multi-million dollar launch contracts. I think the same thing applies to NASA.

Honestly, this sounds like a plan to avoid funding NASA. "No no, we don't need to give NASA enough money to fund this mission, they can use advertisements to fund their spaceflights now"

EDIT: Oh, and they'd really be shooting themselves in the foot if they put ads on their educational broadcasts.

Edited September 12, 2018 by Mad Rocket Scientist

[LordFerret]

Not worth the debate.

Edited September 12, 2018 by LordFerret

[kerbiloid]

KSP should add this feature, too.
Place commercials on your rocket and get some funds.

[Dman979]

Moved to Science and Spaceflight.

[StrandedonEarth]

It's been done...

I think one of those SRBs should be a Crayola

[roboslacker]

1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said:

Where did you find that?

[StrandedonEarth]

3 minutes ago, roboslacker said:

Where did you find that?

Google Image search. It’s old; I’m pretty sure I first saw it while STS was still flying. I just googled “Shuttle McDonalds” since I knew that was on it. It also brought up images of Endeavor going by a McDonalds in LA

[YNM]

10 hours ago, Mad Rocket Scientist said:

True, SpaceX airs what are essentially advertisements for the satellite they are launching, on the other hand that again has at least some relevance to what you're seeing.

ULA, ILS and ESA does this too for their commercial launches. I remembered one for BRISat on Ariane V, ULA does this for commercial flights, I think I remembered them for ILS's Delta II too.

But seriously, if your company contributed for a manned space exploration, I'm sure you can produce your own ads that brags about it.

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

MFD is a nice place for the banners. And they have to keep watching it.

Of course, there is no need in making the flight data unreadable, just click the popup window to close the banner.

 

Edited September 12, 2018 by kerbiloid

[StrandedonEarth]

4 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said:

 

 

I should add that IIRC the original caption for this was along the lines of “If the Shuttle was flown by NASCAR”

[kerbiloid]

Spoiler

If they did that a little earlier...

 

[Ultimate Steve]

Interesting enough, Russia did this once, although to be fair Pizza Hut did actually launch a pizza to the ISS.

[mikegarrison]

11 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said:

Interesting enough, Russia did this once, although to be fair Pizza Hut did actually launch a pizza to the ISS.

What would be worse than going months without pizza? Going months without pizza and then being offered some of that stuff Pizza Hut claims is pizza.

[kerbiloid]

4 minutes ago, mikegarrison said:

What would be worse than going months without pizza? Going months without pizza and then being offered some of that stuff Pizza Hut claims is pizza.

Indeed.

Spoiler

 

[KG3]

What demographic would an ad on a rocket be targeting?   It would probably be cheaper and more effective to just run an ad during the Super Bowl.

[Bill Phil]

30 minutes ago, KG3 said:

What demographic would an ad on a rocket be targeting?   It would probably be cheaper and more effective to just run an ad during the Super Bowl.

And those are demonstrably ineffective...

[Kernel Kraken]

I can see an SLS booster being painted like a crayon, or a battery, or something else tube shaped. I would hate it, but that's capitalism for ya.

[Shpaget]

Ugh.

Do they really think that they could charge enough to make any difference? It costs about a hundred million $ to launch anything, what would a few tens of thousands actually do?

On a similar note, I find it obnoxious when I see ads on business websites. I mean, I understand and can see justification when a news site, personal blog or similar has ads, but when a small (or worse, a big) specialized business slaps on ads on their site it just reeks cheap.

 

[kerbiloid]

As S7 has declared their plans of building a partially reusable rocket in 2022, it's a pity that they have replaced their planes livery with green people.

Spoiler

 

Edited September 13, 2018 by kerbiloid

[Arugela]

On 9/12/2018 at 11:07 AM, StrandedonEarth said:

I should add that IIRC the original caption for this was along the lines of “If the Shuttle was flown by NASCAR”

Now we just need to consider the distance of launch the speed and then compare it to a nascar race and see given the same distance who wins. They could add the rocket to the nascar race via computer and watch as the cars try to race against the space rocket! It would be like a partial return to the classic races that spawned nascar and other land speed tests.

Edited September 15, 2018 by Arugela

[Xd the great]

*starts imagining every tube-shaped thing made into a rocket*