Nienke,
I fully agree with Michael. For what it is worth, the only time I have ever heard any misgiving about the rockets was in that awful 1996 CBS miniseries. Capt. Smith, played by George C. Scott, looks up at the rocket and says something like, "They're WHITE! They're supposed to be RED, for distress!"
I don't know where the writers got their material for that show. There was a LOT of bad, made-up stuff in that mini-movie. More stuff than good, I recall.
Dan