During the recent Astrodome garage sale, workers could be seen inside the towers severing the bridges that connected the ramp towers to the Dome structure. That work was put off during the recent ...

That’s because the Astrodome has been a kind of second home ... a distance over 640 feet using 9,000 tons of steel with no interior supports. The first sports stadium with a roof.

The Astrodome field in September 1968. Bill Thompson / Houston Post file The background shows: Interior view of an empty stadium with workers on the field and a scoreboard displaying "506 Gulf".

Through the announcement, Houstonians learned the Astrodome redevelopment has three proposals. These proposals include building a new ring of buildings inside the dome, slicing a boulevard through ...

The group, the Astrodome Conservancy, proposes redeveloping the inside of the structure to create new areas for restaurants, retail, office and cultural spaces. But like the others before it ...

HOUSTON - 1965. Aerial view of the Astrodome in Houston shortly after its completion. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images) (Transcendental Graphics, 2006 Mark Rucker ...

the Astrodome served as the home of the Astros, Oilers and, for a short time, the Rockets. Its design was inspired by the Colosseum in Rome. It could seat 50,000 — though a record 68,266 fans ...