It was 50 years ago on this day that the Astrodome, America's Spaceship Rumpus Room, first played host to this, our baseball. The occasion was an exhibition between the Astros and Yankees ... (Image: ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Texans on Thursday marked the 50th birthday of the Houston Astrodome, the world's first fully air-conditioned multipurpose domed stadium, once dubbed a global wonder and now a ...

The idea of a building like the Astrodome once seemed as foreign as sending a man to the moon. But when Major League Baseball awarded an expansion franchise to Houston in 1960, a band of visionaries ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Footage from the ABC13 film archives is taking you to the first Houston Astros game ever played in the legendary Astrodome. The day was April 9, 1965. A sold out crowd of ...

The Houston Astrodome, the first indoor major league baseball stadium opened on April 9, 1965. The venue, which was nicknamed The Eighth Wonder of the World, hosted the New York Yankees and the ...

In 1968, they were baseball's biggest names: Mickey Mantle. Hank Aaron. Willie Mays. They, and I, were at the MLB All-Star Game at the Astrodome. To a 9-year-old boy growing up in north Mississippi, ...

HOUSTON — Darren Johnson is an avid Astros fan who found a fun way to get his baseball fix after the season ended. He built a chicken coop that is a 1:55 scale model of the Houston Astrodome. The coop ...

HOUSTON (AP) - The Astrodome was once the envy of other cities, a fully air conditioned facility with a translucent roof that kept out the heat and humidity, gave synthetic grass its name, made ...

Less than 100 feet away from the site of this year's Super Bowl—Houston's modern, retractable-roof NRG Stadium—sits the father of all indoor stadiums, ugly and modern. As thousands of screaming ...