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Make it work Rockets coach Rick Adelman said he began fretting about the health of the team over the summer.

China is only the third country in history to put people into space with its own rockets, following the former U. S. S. R. and the U.

According to Yahoo, the veteran had informed the Rockets, the league office in New York and NBA China of his decision to leave the game.

I found this web site with cool Rockets info and how much NBA players make, it helps put each players performance in perspective.

Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy thinks Houston's slow start Saturday may have been a product of being burdened by outside expectations.

Oh yeah, the Rockets had a good game today, so Yao is the greatest. . . . I'm not a Yao hater, just a Yao realest , he's not the best. . .

As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming's(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets.

Rockets point guard Rafer Alston said he recently chatted with Battier about the fact that he's never been on the squad.

There was all the usual stuff, a catherine wheel, a couple of fountains, a jack-in- the -box and two or three rockets.

All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot, a stunning blow to the surging Houston Rockets.

Play better DEFENCE! Commit the Rockets to being the best defensive team in the west and maybe they might be able to win a playoff series .

when it comes to? rockets, the point is Chinese, Russian and German all did their part to help get mankind to where its at today.

It depends on how much will be required to get him. Three good years for Rockets to compete for Championships.

Israeli aircraft staged what appeared to be a limited response, attacking sites where the rockets were launched.

None of the 23 rockets launched were in the direction of the crash, he said.

Brown told Jackson he felt he would be able to play in the Lakers'next game, Friday night at Staples Center against the Houston Rockets.

How much of sina's stuff is fake? I find it strange that they get more Rockets interviews than the Chronicle.

Dawson is still trying to finalize a contract agreement with point guard John Lucas III, who played 13 games with the Rockets last season.

the refs did not screw the jazz. The rockets play defense without fouling so much. Everytime we get someone under the basket, we foul them!

China was the third nation to put a man into space on its own rockets, after the U. S. S. R. and the U. S.

It will hit so much of these small-caliber rockets and 'missiles, ' that it will change the equation for the other side.

Hagia Sophia is the great architectural landmark at the heart of Istanbul, with its four minarets poised like moon-bound rockets.

Cork can be shined and used to cover floors and walls. Because it is fire-resistant, cork is even been used as a material in making rockets.

PLEASE allow me to set up the conflict for the next Mission: Impossible film, starring Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets.

Even if it was a Palestinian group who fired the rockets, Hizbullah would have to at least have turned a blind eye to allow the rocket fire.

It is true that Israel has put up with the rockets from Gaza for a long time. But it may have been able to stop the rockets another way.

But for whatever goofy reason, the Rockets seem to have more confidence against the Spurs than against the physical Jazz.

The huge, showy booster rockets fallen away, it was just a little glider or an aeroplane.

It would be bad if we tried to fire our rockets and get out of there because we couldn't, anymore than light can escape.

I believe Head is going to be an amazing guard down the road, and he has the potential be to a Sam Cassell for the Rockets this year.

And I said, that might do the same thing, whatever it is. I'm sure it's got to do with rockets or it wouldn't be in that manual.

I missed the game, but from what I've seen from scoreboard and TV, this was one of the most beautiful games the Rockets played this season.

I've been a fan since the day I won a Houston Rockets play ball in one of those crane machines.

The rockets are safe and have been used to send satellites into space and to prepare for the nation's first manned space flight.

The organization could take such a bold approach since the Rockets had one of the best off seasons in the NBA.

The review said the agency may have to abandon the Ares rockets and switch to a cheaper design.

But in some ways, assuming the Rockets stopped getting hurt and get a few guys healthy, the tough road losses might be a good thing.

I'm trying to find that article where Dennis Lindsey says he'll always be a Rockets fan. At least we can say he's a man of his word.

I really like how they got out on the break and kept their turnovers down. This was a solid, professional beat-down by the Rockets.

When reloading, the Soldier's hand will animate as if he's putting in rockets. However, the rockets are not seen.

After the war, both the United States and the Soviet Union began to develop large rockets for exploring space.

Rockets flew much faster and required inertial guidance for just a few minutes to put the weapon on a predictable ballistic path.

This is definitely the general theme of the Rockets' off-season, at least since the trade for Artest.

JEFF It seems to me that a good man, is a good coach, but may not be suitable for a coach of the Rockets.

But any cease-fire must have conditions in it so that Hamas does not use Gaza as a place from which to launch rockets, " he said. "

Im learning the system with the Rockets. It's a new team, so I listen to what they've got to say and try not to make any mistakes.

The attackers used their rockets to destroy at least two Lockheed P-3C Orion aircraft, used for maritime patrolling, and a helicopter.

For at least several years, Russia's rockets and capsules will provide the only crew transportation to the orbiting station.

He was the top pick of that draft, selected by the Houston Rockets, whose new arena would soon be sponsored by Toyota.

My buddy who doesn't follow the Rockets but follows the NBA, said he thought Mobley was really a cool guy.

Yao Ming of the Rockets pillar has been blocked outside, see Garnett and powerful one-handed snatching up the ball to the plate outside.

Referee should not call Kobe's traveling in that critical moment if it's in play off. This is why I said rockets win by lucky.

Sincerely, I feel for you guys, as the Rockets are usually on the receiving end of things like these.

Yes. The Rockets is doing a good job as a whole . Several players have scored . They seem to have a good day today.

The Rockets desperately need to work on their FT shooting and passing, geez. It was an ugly win, but I'll take it.

Les and the Rockets have been nothing short of amazing to me and my family during my entire time with them, and for that I thank them.

The Rockets are barely in game mode, but the Bobcats are sorry. If we were playing any other team in the NBA tonight it would be trouble.

At least three Katyusha rockets were fired from southern Lebanon, landing near the town of Nahariya and injuring two people.

Armoured units stayed on the Gaza border, poised to go back in, the army said, if Hamas resumed its firing of rockets across the border.

The Rockets could have offered the sort of deal the others could not, giving Artest his first and last big contract.

And with that in mind, I now present to you my general observations and conclusions after watching the first Rockets preseason game.

Hamas says it would stop firing rockets, at least for a period, if the blockade were lifted.

The payload capacity of the Long March 6 rockets is not revealed. Neither are specific space programs the rockets are to be involved in.

The Rockets are very good! But my question is why do u sign back Steve Francis and then not play him in the first games of the season?

But there'll have to be a huge transfusion of talent before the Rockets can even begin to think of winning a championship.

I thought after a few decades? of rockets they would come up with a space elevator or another way of getting into orbit, cheaper and safer.

Ultimately, whatever [Rockets] coach Rick Adelman tells me to do is exactly what I'm going to do.

They fired the spacecraft's control rockets. The spacecraft slowed and began to re-enter the atmosphere.

To date, 14 Israelis have been killed by these rockets since 2001 and up to the beginning of the Israeli offensive. January 2009.

The Rockets had a busy offseason, with Adelman's replacing Jeff Van Gundy just one of a number of changes.

It also said the indiscriminative firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas violated international humanitarian law.

When he was shutdown, the rockets collapse. Hayes, Battier has no much impact on the game.

Yao said he will not leave for China until the Rockets clear him to practice.

This means scramjets can achieve some of the speed of a rocket without having to carry heavy oxidiser (to mix with fuel), as rockets do.

When Grenades and Rockets are fired too close to your Marine, you temporarily lose your hearing, a condition known as Tinnitus.

First off , the Rockets are not actively looking to trade Battier . Second , why do you think the Sonics are just dying to have Howard ?

Rebels retaliated with rockets as a fireball exploded from four of the oil tanks and the sky above the terminal filled with black smoke.

With McGrady struggling for three-plus quarters to locate his shot, the Rockets proved that they're more than just a one-man team.

If all goes well in the doctor's office, the Rockets will be ready to blast off in mid - April.

The Rockets look constipated ! Absolutely pathetic offense. I can't believe this is all because Rafer is not here. I just don't accept that.

An NBA insider said the Indiana Pacers, Houston Rockets and Boston Celtics have interest in Nuggets point guard Earl Watson.

There were lilac rockets in the sky-a signal of tank alarm, but they did not have anti-tank guns and were defeated soon.

Such liquid fuel rockets as are now being used for space research have to carry their own supply of oxygen.

Imagine if we declare a unilateral ceasefire and a few days later rockets fall on Ashkelon. What will that do to Israel's deterrence?

Right now it may appear that Yao's absence hasn't been a problem for the Rockets, that's because their outside jumpers are falling.

The spokesman said the rockets came from the eastern city of Kabul, also blamed "enemies of Afghanistan" to launch the attack.

in the last 10 yeas we have seen satellites and rockets shooting up all over the place and most recently a man space walking.

Maybe that loss to the Hornets was not so bad after all. The Rockets were horrible. The loss, however, might be useful.

Yao may never again be the 37-minute workhorse he was two years ago, and the Rockets are prepared to live with this new reality.

I'm not a Rafer fan by any means, but he's the best player the Rockets have at the point guard position.

Yao may never again be the 37-minute workhorse he was two years ago, and the Rockets are prepared to live with this new reality.

I'm not a Rafer fan by any means, but he's the best player the Rockets have at the point guard position.

The Rockets also have established business ties to China, stemming from Yao Ming's tenure in Houston, so Lin might have added value.

it wasn't until i read the newspaper and saw breaking news about space or rockets that i knew what he had been doing.

He belongs to what was once the Soviet intelligentsia, and is more interested in business than rockets.

However, L. A. should take some confidence in the fact that they have had greater success against the Rockets in Houston.

At least three rockets struck southern Israel after Hamas said it was halting attacks, Israeli police said.

But the Rockets still would like to take the new model out for a real test drive.

They knew T-Mac was Rockets' offense engine. Shutting down T-Mac (even before he got the ball) sucked Rockets' offense.

"The rockets slice open people's stomachs. The roads are covered with body parts, " he said.

But aha! Start shooting rockets into the dirt surrounding the door, and get a tunnel around it going. Until you run out of ammo, that is.

The United States urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties, and said Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel.

This hip young man can carry up to 8 soldiers and is equipped with quite a lot of nasty unguided rockets .

Good to see he's getting the recognition he deserves. The Rockets have been nothing short of amazing this year.

The truce calls for Palestinian militants to stop firing rockets at Israel, and for Israel to open crossings into Gaza.

The U. S. supplied the rockets that the mujahedeen used to attack Russian helicopters in Afghanistan.

Rockets general manager Carroll Dawson is convinced his club needs only a few additional pieces to become a serious contender.

The former Houston Rockets center also took the injured bear's paw into his hands, showing it some love.

Efforts should be kept up to persuade Hamas to accept a two-state deal and to stop rockets being fired from Gaza into Israeli towns.

It is a sign neither of courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus.

I thought Brandon said he figured it out how to play the Rockets. . . I guess not. Anyway, I still have faith in this team.

She says the best way for that to happen is for Hamas and other Palestinian militants in Gaza to stop firing rockets at southern Israel.

But the Rockets did just enough to think they were in the game.

In this case, the Ares I-X took a ride on one of two crawlers built to carry around the Saturn V rockets that sent astronauts to the moon.

Connected to its massive arms were a deadly cluster of firing tubes which dispensed a seemingly endless supply of seeker rockets.

Yes, they keep shooting 3-points, they have tons of FTs, but Rockets should deal with this situation. Because playoffs can be like this.

The noise of the little cannon carried across the water and the reflections from the rockets twinkled in the river .

Like the American craft, Vostok was equipped with braking rockets and parachutes for the return to earth.

It's not just the Rockets as they head into a Charlotte-Washington back-to-back tonight and Saturday.

He was a backup in Orlando and the Rockets had hoped he would be a backup here.

Still, the rumors persist, to the point that Rockets general manager Daryl Morey told Martin he is not looking to deal him.

To this day, the Rockets can only rely on breakthroughs in the speed of the universe, the realization of the ideals of human space flight.

Earlier, the armed wing of Hamas, which controls Gaza, said it had fired several rockets towards Israel.

And unlike radio-controlled aircraft, rockets were all but invulnerable to jamming or interception.

Once in Europe, the black powder was used for military purposes, first in rockets, then in canons and guns.

For one night, at least, the Rockets had the cast-iron constitution to handle whatever came their way.

If there was anything to take from the Rockets' preseason opener and Yao Ming's return to the court, the impression left was not about Yao.

As the name suggests, we have the speed of rockets, each customer will not wait for more than two minutes.

Yao's main asset to the Rockets was, of course, his on-court abilities as one of the National Basketball Association's best centers.

Rockets explode to fill the dark night sky with bright reds and blues, with yellows and greens and whites.

The Trail Blazers would seem to face the toughest road, with two road games remaining before the break, against the Rockets and Mavericks.

Since the Rockets were away from home, bus transportation was provided from the hotel to the Staples Arena.

A story that came out this summer said Artest did a similar thing when he played for the Houston Rockets.

Anybody see Tracy McGrady on Saturday? For the first time this season, he did not attend a Rockets game. Sore back.

But as shells and rockets began raining down on them they fled as quickly as they had come.

Needless to say, it has been an up and down year for the Rockets.

But Tuesday night, the Lakers went back to being the cool kid, absolutely running the gutty little Rockets off the court in the first half.

The three rockets fired at the British military base at Basra airport within an hour of his statement are another.

When Scola hitting nothing but air at the start of game and the Rockets couldnt set any offensive tone, the game was already doomed.

Afterall, the rockets are a good home team, and is the only team that blew UTAH out this year.

The Rockets, or McGrady's new team, would receive 80 percent of his per-game salary for any games he misses the rest of this season.

There is no way the Rockets should have lost that game, except they played without any sense of urgency and were far too passive. . .

One only has to watch the Rockets play to see the best of China in this talented young man.

Everyone knew the next war would be fought with push-buttons, rockets, missiles, etc. . . .

But prices are likely to keep falling this year, so economic recovery will lack one of its usual booster rockets.

With Yao Ming out of the game, the Rockets turned the little guys loose and LA never could solve that riddle.

It would have been disappointing if the Rockets did'nt take advantage of their fresher legs and outwork the Lakers.

A restive Gaza, belching out rockets and swallowing up soldiers, is not a good advertisement for a repeat exercise in the West Bank.

The remains of old rockets can be the size of a bus, while other fragments are simply tiny flecks of paints.

I wish the current Rockets team nothing but success this season.

With all of the new faces, this time may be as important to the Rockets as any other team in the NBA.

Sucker-punched them, that is. Only this time, it was legal, it was fair, and it may have knocked the Rockets out for good.

We could have stopped the negotiations when the Qassam rockets did not stop but we did not do that.

But your uncle has been shooting bottle rockets at squirrels and pounding MGD all day, and now he's f*cain' hungry.

Chucky and Juwan both did their thing as well. I don't think any Rockets player had anything less than a stellar performance tonight!

There's no doubt that Yao's return will mean an adjustment period for the Rockets.

The Houston Rockets are counting on an innovative and complicated surgical procedure to repair the hairline fracture in his left foot.

The shuttles can carry a far greater load into orbit than any other rockets now in use, and can also bring heavy items back to the ground.

Against the Rockets and the Nuggets you had difficulties and there was much said about the lack of superiority of the inside game.

What, if anything, can be done to at least make the rest of the season interesting for Rockets fans?

The Rockets have pulled it off even though Dikembe Mutombo is the only player in the current eight-man rotation standing at least 6-foot-10.

But shooting was just somewhere on the list of shortcomings. The Rockets went through the motions slowly until Van Gundy benched everyone.

rocket scientists do not necessarily build rockets for a living.

The Rockets' marquee player scored 19 points but made only one of six shots in that deciding third quarter, and was never a factor again.

Rockets can fly far out into space. Rockets have already taken men to the moon. One day they may be able to go anywhere in space.

Award winners, like the Sacramento Kings' Tyreke Evans and the Houston Rockets ' Aaron Brooks , were also not considered.

Yao Ming says his surgically repaired left ankle is healing properly and he would like to remain with the Houston Rockets.

Yao insisted, however, it would be hard to leave the Rockets because of injury or a trade away.

Nuclear rockets, in contrast to their chemical counterparts, could impart a maximum velocity of up to about 22 kilometers a second.

Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy said McGrady just needs to get a little more arch on all of his shots.

Palestinian militants fired at least 12 rockets at Israel and Israeli warplanes targeted Hamas rocket launchers.

My biggest concern with the Rockets' current roster is the lack of elite rebounders in the front court.

" David Wesley said the Rockets could have a " very special season.

As soon as it was activated, the ejection sequence activated two rockets attached to the back of his chair.

He has become much more of a playmaker for the Rockets, particularly now that Yao Ming is back in the lineup.

In his first game with the Rockets, the point guard delivered.

The league is still reviewing video the Rockets provided of an incident earlier in the game when Howard tripped Yao.

Rockets coach Rick - like Brooks Adelman speed, but he does not like to allow a state of instability in the regular players to play.

Jordan also did not have to face any great teams. The best teams in the '90s were the the Rockets, Jazz, Super Sonics, Knicks, and Suns.

However, no other Rockets perimeter player stepped up to contribute to the offense.

Police said the rockets hit a residential area hotel staff, fire.

To be honest, if Rockets play like what they have played so far, there is no point move to next round.

The U. S. has been calling on Egypt, Turkey and others to use their influence with Hamas to stop firing rockets into Israel.

But few observers expected much from the gathering, even before the Taliban fired rockets at it.

Current ICBMs, Minuteman and Peacekeeper, are solid fuel rockets that can be launched within seconds directly out of their silo tubes.

When he thinks about the rest of his career, he imagines it with the Rockets.

If the Lakers cooperated by sending free-agent bust Vladimir Radmanovic to the Rockets, it would work out for both clubs.

With the Rockets' defense keying on Bryant, Pau Gasol, Odom and perhaps even Bynum, Ariza may find himself open in this series as well.

When he played for the Houston Rockets last season, Ron Artest contends he had to play big minutes in order for the team to be successful.

Firstly, China is a country that leaves nothing to chance. They even have cloud seeding rockets to make it rain in times of drought.

After World War Two, companies began to make diners that looked like rockets and spaceships.

On the heights above, British marines at the sharp end of NATO's war against the Taliban routinely come under fire from guns and rockets.

Jerwilliamz: what about this as the Rockets coaching staff: Rick Adelman , Elston Turner , Mario Elie and Tom Thibadeau ?

They slammed rockets into the enemy 's positions.

Galactic Suite plans to transport its travelers to space via Russian rockets from a spaceport to be built on a Caribbean island.

Jackson, who played for Rockets coach Rick Adelman for five seasons in Sacramento, asked his coach what his role would be in Houston.

He's frustrated that he couldn't guide the Rockets on a deep postseason run and, just as in years past, he's pondering his future.

Affectionately known as "CD, " Dawson oversees all player personnel activity for the Rockets.

When was the last time the Rockets won twice in San Antonio ?

Two new rockets--both adapted from shuttle engines--will get all this hardware into space.

Hamas has continued to fire rockets into southern Israel.

Unfortunately we do not know how to build rockets that fast!

At least, not a game that the Rockets were trying seriously to win.

If he keeps it up, the Rockets will have two 25-point scorers - just sick.

And those rockets like the ones that are being launched right here, those are fired at Israel from Gaza.

There were rockets, space suits, even parts from a satellite - so many mind-boggling things to see.

The U. S. needs a cheap way to put humans and equipment into orbit, until commercial rockets become available.

Every year, Yao Ming is difficult to Savior, the Rockets are doing it by halves of the kind of counseling.

These rockets are popular because they are cheap, they're easy to make out of steel tubes.

Through each exposure to interacting with others, you launch continuous rockets of desires of what you prefer.

Its aim, it says, was to stop Hamas firing rockets, with increasing range, at towns in southern Israel.

Mr Bernstein said that Israel's assertion that it was acting in self-defence against Hamas rockets should have been factored in.

It's Israeli Defense System that shoots down rockets coming in from Gaza, so far it's intercepted about 30% of those rockets.

They rained bombs and rockets on the enemy gun emplacements.

They are trying to send rockets around the moon.

The company's reusable rockets are designed to lift off for space and return several times a day.

The benefits afforded by plasma engines become most striking in light of the drawbacks of conventional rockets.

The system will defeat short-range ballistic missiles, large-caliber rockets and cruise missiles in their terminal phase of flight.

Still, the Houston Rockets all-star center will start training with the national team today, less than two days after he arrived in Beijing.

The waves were splashing against the rockets and the rhythmical roar of the breakers sounded like a symphony.

Of course, the Rockets could try to get the Sonics to take Juwan Howard and Battier, which would add up to nearly $13 million.

Working constantly to develop and improve the newest rockets, man will soon be able to explore the solar system.

Though McGrady didn't get a point in the first half, the Rockets went into the break with a 15-point advantage.

The Rockets' plan to let Tracy McGrady play through the soreness in his left knee was put on hold Wednesday.

A year later, it flew as bombs and rockets burst over Baltimore Harbor.

Not to mention, with season tickets to sell, the Rockets wouldn't roll out a gimpy Yao for the cameras.

Bonzi played great btw. Definite sixth man of the Rockets.

When training camp starts for the Rockets next week in Austin, so much of the focus will be on all of the new faces.

However, in addition to the above-mentioned factors, why the Rockets Up to now people have not been that high Lvshan military verdict?

"We feel like he's a strong piece to get us deeper and farther in the playoffs, " Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said.

Yao is still the Rockets' most reliable scoring option, and they'll try to force the ball to him again in Game 4.

Next to us a Talib with a pouch of three RPG rockets strapped on his back was finishing his prayer.

If Hamas's rockets are silenced, albeit for a while, Israel's voters may warm to those harsh qualities.

By that he meant the United States perhaps firing its own rockets in North Korea's direction, "to test them. "

Rockets and shells continued to hit the battered port.

This paper study on the performance issues of a certain type of anti-aircraft rockets system against cruise missiles.

Their car in the wind and fire in the collision, their rockets will not Dapian, 6 machine-guns cut armor as tofu cut.

Imagine this: you are the pilot of a Navy fighter jet. You're flying in formation when you come under attack from ground-based rockets.

They would be built from shuttle booster rockets, fuel tanks and main engines, as well as moon rocket engines.

But more than anything, the Rockets need to turn McGrady back into what he was, or get someone like that for him.

A Tornado MRLS vehicle can carry up to twelve 300-mm rockets with an effective range of up to 90 kilometers.

The rockets fired from Lebanon this week were a reminder, if one were needed, that the 2006 war ended in a truce not a peace.

An Iraqi insurgent leader has claimed that his group has begun to manufacture its own rockets.

The atmospheric vehicle's flat underbelly is lined with ordnance pods, capable of unleashing rockets and bombs at distant targets.

Unsurprisingly, the Rockets were considered one of the league's most disappointing teams.

It really depressed me as the unending injuries had haunted the Rockets for the last whole season.

In games that close, the Houston Rockets often give the ball to Shane Battier, because when they do, they tend to win.

Similarly, our own present primitive chemical rockets, though good enough to orbit men.

Indian scientists have put rockets into space, but on the land beyond the launch pad transport is largely by bullock-cart.

In March Islamist and other rivals of Hamas, out to spoil the movement's efforts, upped the number of rockets fired at Israel.