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After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.
Storyline
A shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space alerts NASA to a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. it seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's underfunded yet resourceful team trains the world's best drillers for the job, the world's social order begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, members of the drilling team face deep personal issues that might jeopardize humanity's last chance.
Release date : July 1, 1998 (United States)
Country of origin : United States
Languages : English • Russian • Indonesian
Filming locations : Houston, Texas, USA(Johnson Space Center, Neutral Buoyancy Lab, Historical Apollo era Flight Control Room)
Production companies : Touchstone Pictures • Jerry Bruckheimer Films • Valhalla Motion Pictures
Box office
Budget : $140,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada : $201,578,182
Opening weekend US & Canada : $36,089,972Jul 5, 1998
Gross worldwide : $553,709,788
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