Sweden - Advertising Rockets

T/I: 11:10:38 Companies are being invited to bid for the right to stage the ultimate marketing stunt: advertising on the side of a space rocket. When the Marxus Space Probe is launched in November, the main body of the rocket, about 28 square metres, will be available to be painted up in corporate colours... the first commercial in space. SHOWS: FILE-RECENT, SWEDEN FILE: previous MAXUS launch RECENT: GAZOLIN & S Advertising Agency interiors Pan down model MAXUS rocket Gazolin advert SOT Robert Bryhn, Gazolin and S: "Any company that participated in this project is going to get worldwide coverage and it's so rarely an event appears that can give your world wide coverage." Pan of Esrange Space Base, Kiruna (northern Sweden) Rocket on launcher SOT: Sven Grahn, General Manager, Science Division of Swedish Space Corporation: Even in the space business which you think is very much a government oriented business one is becoming more and more commercial and even organisations like ours need to be well known to sell our products. So that's why we're doing it." Pan up life size model of MAXUS space probe at Esrange Space Base Work on rocket cone at Swedish Space Corporation, Stockholm Pan along body of rocket FILE: previous launch of MAXUS rocket 1.57 You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/f2dcfb2c5aa8ce7b47537e371ae5009b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork