Ok I'm curious, I just have to ask why the ugly orange and grey stripes on the SLS boosters ?, if ya gotta have stripes why not red & blue ones since the boosters are white ?, this is an American rocket after all.
why not red & blue ones since the boosters are white ?, this is an American rocket after all.
I've been under the impression that the stripes are just more CGI crap that won't actually be a part of the boosters -- like the whole "let's paint the Core Stage white and black like Apollo so we can try to fool people into thinking it's not Ares" thing before they finally dropped that. I can't see why they'd waste up-mass and weight on painting the SRBs for SLS. It serves absolutely no purpose.Someone correct me if I'm wrong and you know that SLS will fly with these stripes on the SRBs.
What a senseless waste of PR materials, changing the imaginary colour scheme of the rockets all the time.This could actually be a great advertising opportunity, they could put sponsor names all over the rocket, and in the end none of it will fly anyway due to weight considerations.
Quote from: rocx on 11/13/2016 04:54 pmWhat a senseless waste of PR materials, changing the imaginary colour scheme of the rockets all the time.This could actually be a great advertising opportunity, they could put sponsor names all over the rocket, and in the end none of it will fly anyway due to weight considerations.How much money do you think the photoshop of stripes actually cost? This isn't a Potemkin village. It's stripes. They almost certainly will not be on the real thing, if it ever even flies.