The NRG Astrodome, also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply the Astrodome, is the world's first multi-purpose, domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas. It was financed and assisted in development by Roy Hofheinz, mayor of Houston and known for pioneering modern stadiums. Construction on the stadium began in 1962, and it officially opened in 1965.[1]
Coverage[]
The Astrodome is featured in The Bodies Left Behind in 20 years after people.
The episode stated that it once kept steady at 72 degrees but 20 years without people has swelter to 125 degrees in the summer causing the Astrodome to become enormous bat caves. AstroTurf, Astrodome's trademark artificial grass, is being swallowed up by weeds and muck. With the Astrodome turning into bat caves, the bats, feasting on insects, makes their own contribution to the ecosystem by dropping guano. Volker Rudolf stated that guano has a lot of nutrients making insects to feed on the fungus that also bringing in the predators to feed on the insects.
Its fate is revealed in 100 years after people when it spent the last 100 years as sub-tropical paradises. The episode then explains its maintenance when it cost an half a million dollars a year to maintain the Astrodome in the time of humans. It then shows that after a century of neglect have cause the entire structure to crack and crumble. This cause the 9000 tonne steel and lucite dome, in great chunks, to collapse and comes raining down into the stadium.
Trivia[]
- It was closed in 2008, a year before it was featured in Life After People.
- This means that the Astrodome is the only closed/abandoned structure to be featured without the show investigating the place as abandoned locale.
- On December 8, 2013. The Houston Astrodome was Partial Demolished after 4 years in featured series