When they fall significantly behind schedule and communications are about to fail after one and a half hour, the military initiates "Secondary Protocol" to remote detonate the weapon on the asteroid's surface, which apparently will not have any effect. thick crust of compressed iron ferrite rather than the planned softer stone, but still on the fault line parallel with the asteroids' course. Grace, watching from NASA headquarters, is distraught by A.J.'s apparent death.įreedom lands safely, but misses the target area, so the team must now drill through a 50 ft. Traveling through the asteroid's debris field Independence's hull is punctured and crashes onto the rock. After 60 hours, the shuttles slingshot around the Moon at a maximum speed of 22.500 miles per hour in order to land on the backside of the asteroid. A fire breaks out during the transfer and the station is evacuated just before it explodes, with Lev and A. Once in orbit, the shuttles dock with the new 11-year old modified Russian space station Mir manned by Lev Andropov (Stormare) to refuel. Afterwards, two of the latest Space Shuttles, named Freedom and Independence, are launched from Cape Canaveral.
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When a meteorite from the asteroid wipes out the coastal area of Shanghai, NASA and other space agencies are forced to reveal their plans to the world before Harry and his crew go to Florida for training revisions and last-minute preparations. Once they have been rounded up and the situation is explained, they agree to help, but only after their list of unusual rewards and demands are met.Īs NASA puts Harry and his crew through a short and rigorous 12-day astronaut training program at Johnson Space Center, Harry and his team re-outfit the mobile drillers, named the "Armadillos", that will be used on the asteroid. Harry and Grace learn about the asteroid and Harry explains he will need his team, including A.J., to carry out the mission.
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Harry returns to NASA along with his daughter Grace (Tyler) to keep her away from her new boyfriend, one of Harry's young and rambunctious drillers, A.J. NASA contacts Harry Stamper (Willis), considered the best deep-sea oil driller in the world, for assistance and advice. (243 m) deep, and plant a H-bomb device into it which, when detonated, will split the asteroid in two, driving the halves apart so that they both will fly safely past the Earth. NASA scientists, led by Dan Truman (Thornton) plan to drill a shaft into the asteroids' surface of at least 800 ft. NASA discovers that the meteoroids came from a parent body asteroid with a Texas-sized surface, and that another impact on Earth will occur in 18 days, starting another extinction event, and eventually a 6-mile wide asteroid will impact into the Pacific Ocean and wipe out most life on the planet.
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It became the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide surpassing the Steven Spielberg war epic, Saving Private Ryan.Ī massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis, enters the atmosphere and bombards New York City, the East Coast, and Finland. Armageddon was an international box-office success, despite generally mixed reviews from critics. Both films were equally received by film critics. Armageddon fared better at the box office astronomers described Deep Impact as being more scientifically accurate. It features an ensemble cast including Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Owen Wilson, Will Patton, Peter Stormare, William Fichtner, Michael Clarke Duncan, Keith David, and Steve Buscemi.Īrmageddon opened in theaters only two-and-a-half months after a similar impact-based movie, Deep Impact, which starred Robert Duvall and Morgan Freeman. The film follows a group of blue-collar deep-core drillers sent by NASA to stop and deflect a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with Earth. $553.7 million Source Armageddon is a 1998 American science fiction disaster drama film, directed by Michael Bay, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Disney's Touchstone Pictures.