Well, for some very strange reasons, I could not access Houston Chronicle these days, so I'm not sure if anyone (i.e. Jonathan Feigen, Fran Blinebury or anyone else) has covered the following interesting news.
I wonder if that guy is still wearing his space diapers? http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=124237
This is made 100x better by the fact that Houston's team name is not something non-sequitur like "Texans", or some animal. The name fits, it's logical, and a great image for the city.
WHO ELSE on such PR occasion ? He is Nelson Luis, Director, Media Relations of the Houston Rockets, the official spokesperson.
Yeah, after the game on FSN last night they showed the footage of him going to NASA to train like an astronaut for a day back in August. I was surprised, the dude seemed to genuinely LOVE it, he was having a blast. Haha, he said his favorite part of Mission Control was "pushing all the buttons".