After having been vetoed in a previous attempt by owner Jerry Reinsdorf, Krause traded Scottie Pippen for Roy Rogers ( who was released in February 1999 ) and a conditional second-round draft pick from the Houston Rockets.

Owner Peter Pocklington had explored moving the Oilers to Minnesota during the 1990s, and in 1998 Pocklington almost made a deal to sell the team to Leslie Alexander, the owner of the Houston Rockets of the NBA who would have moved the team to Houston, Texas.

In October 2006, team owner Leslie Alexander ( who also owns the NBA's Houston Rockets team ) announced he was selling the Comets, and longtime Head Coach Van Chancellor resigned in January 2007.

Although the bill was failed in the Texas House of Representatives, Rockets owner Leslie Alexander announced he would continue to study the possibility of constructing a new arena in downtown Houston, saying the 20-year old Summit arena was too outdated to be profitable.

Although the Summit's management said they could renovate the building for a small part of the cost of a new arena, the Rockets began talks with the city of Houston on a possible location for an arena, They also negotiated with Houston Aeros and Summit owner, Chuck Watson, to release them from their contract with the Summit, which ran until 2003.

For the 2001 season, then owner Leslie Alexander ( owner of the NBA's Houston Rockets ), sold the franchise back to the Arena Football League.

George Joseph Maloof, Sr. ( 11 April 1923 Las Vegas, New Mexico-29 November 1980 in Albuquerque, New Mexico ) was a businessman and, at the time of his death, owner of the Houston Rockets.

After commissioner David Stern, acting as owner of the New Orleans Hornets, vetoed a three-team deal involving the Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers that would have sent Martin to New Orleans, he stayed with Houston for the lockout-shortened season.

Alexander personally chose colors for the restaurant to help customers feel " warm and comfortable ", and Rockets president George Postolos said that the Rockets looked " for a relationship with the people that attend events in our venue ".

* Lumi, a fictional character and the singer of the virtual band Genki Rockets, was born on September 11, 2037, and is the first human to be born in space.

* 1813-" A Treatise on the Motion of Rockets " by William Moore – first appearance of the rocket equation

Rockets boiler was of the more highly developed form, with the separate firebox and a blastpipe for draught, rather than Seguin's cumbersome fans, but Rocket was not the first multi-tubular boiler, although it remains unclear just whose invention it was.

Rockets first firebox was of copper sheet and of a somewhat triangular shape from the side.

The 1989 – 90 season saw Miami awarded with the 3rd pick overall, only to parlay via two trades ( first with the Denver Nuggets and later with the Houston Rockets ) into getting the 9th and 12th picks, with which they selected Willie Burton of the University of Minnesota and Alec Kessler of the University of Georgia.

The Heat became the first team since the 1968 – 69 San Diego Rockets to go from 15 wins to the playoffs in one year ( finished 43 – 39 ).

This made the Nets the second team to opt for a D-League " hybrid affiliation ," the first being the Houston Rockets with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.

Additionally, the Hornets were the first NBA team to popularize the use of pinstripes on uniforms, inspiring similar designs by the Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors, Houston Rockets, Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers.

The Cavs became the first team since the 1983 Houston Rockets to have two picks in the top five in the draft.

Inspired by the tough playoff defeat, the Rockets stormed all the way to the 1994 NBA Finals, where Olajuwon led them to the franchise's first championship against his rival Patrick Ewing and the New York Knicks.

Jack McMahon was named the Rockets ' coach, and the team's first draft pick, in 1967, was Pat Riley.

Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.

The team made the playoffs again in the 1992 – 93 season with a 41 – 41 record, but lost again in five games in the first round, to the Rockets.

The Rockets, led by Moses Malone, defeated Los Angeles in the first round of the playoffs.

After some run-ins with Van Exel, displeasure with Harris's strategies, and a first round loss to the Rockets, Johnson decided to retire for the final time after the season.

They defeated the Rockets, Spurs, and Timberwolves in the first three rounds of the 2004 NBA Playoffs, before succumbing to Detroit in five games in the 2004 NBA Finals.

On the trade deadline long time Laker Derek Fisher along with a first round draft pick were traded to the Houston Rockets for Jordan Hill.

This " Tracking Light for Model Rockets " project appeared in the September 1969 issue of Model Rocketry ( magazine ) | Model Rocketry and was the first kit sold by MITS.

The album's first single, " Rockets ", was made available on the Internet in early April 2009.

The first wider recognition of Gilbert and his brothers ' work occurred in 1982, after they had sent in a copy of their Love & Rockets comic, which up to that point they had been self publishing, to the Comics Journal, the foremost U. S. magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books and strips.

In 1981, Hernandez and his brothers Jaime and Mario published the first issue of Love and Rockets, which was quickly picked up by Fantagraphics Books, who republished the earliest materials in a new series starting in 1982.

In 1983, Hernandez published the first part of the first Heartbreak Soup story in Love and Rockets # 3.

The first volume of Love and Rockets came to an end in 1996, with its fiftieth issue.

In his first season with the Rockets ( 2004 – 05 ), Mutombo averaged 15. 2 MPG, 5. 3 RPG, and 4. 0 PPG.

Peter Murphy began a solo career while the other members continued as Tones on Tail and, later, Love and Rockets.

They began as the sister team of the Houston Rockets.

A third volume, called Love and Rockets: New Stories began in 2008.

The Rockets began an appeal in January 1998 against the court order to stay at the Summit, but then dropped it in May, because they felt that a new arena would be ready by the time they finished their lease.

" The Houston Sports Authority had not planned to meet with the Rockets until after the NBA season ended, but after the Rockets began to talk to other cities about relocation, they resumed talks in February 2000.

Not long after the season began, Türkoğlu, Richardson, and Earl Clark were traded to Orlando for Vince Carter, Marcin Gortat, and Mickaël Piétrus, while rising star Goran Dragic was traded to the Houston Rockets for Aaron Brooks.

The movement began to decline in popularity again in the 1990s but produced some bands like Son Volt, Wilco and Bottle Rockets.

It was also around this time that Malone began to tutor a young Nigerian big man in Houston by the name of Hakeem Olajuwon, passing on the torch to the future Rockets superstar.

Horry went on to be a key member of the Rockets ' title teams and began to lay the foundations for his " Big Shot Rob " reputation with a game-winning jumper in the final seconds of Game 1 of the 1995 Western Conference Finals vs. the San Antonio Spurs and adding a crucial basket in a 106-103 win in Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Orlando Magic.

He began playing in Canada professionally with the North York Rockets, of the former Canadian Soccer League, for whom he played the 1991 and 1992 seasons.

It began in the 1990s when the Houston Rockets, led by Hakeem Olajuwon, and the Utah Jazz led by Karl Malone and John Stockton, were playoff powers in the Midwest Division.

The rivalry began in the 1980s during the Lakers ' " Showtime " era ( though it had roots in 1967, when the Rockets began play in San Diego ).

In 1977 he began his collegiate football career playing in the Mid American Conference with the University of Toledo Rockets.

Brown graduated from McNeese State University and began his career with the NBA's Houston Rockets in 2001.