

Liv Tyler as Grace Stamper, Harry Stamper's teenage daughter.Frost, Grace's boyfriend and the leader of the Independence shuttle drill team.

Bruce Willis as Harry Stamper, the leader of the Freedom shuttle drill team.and Grace get married, with photos of Harry and the other lost crew members present in memoriam. Freedom lands, and the surviving crew are treated as heroes. After the Freedom moves to a safe distance, Harry pushes the button at the last minute, and the bomb successfully splits the asteroid to avoid collision with Earth as planned. Harry prepares to detonate the bomb and contacts Grace to say his last goodbyes. As he and Harry exit the airlock, Harry rips off A.J.'s air hose and shoves him back inside, telling him he is the son Harry never had, and he would be proud to have A.J. After all the non-flight crew volunteers, they draw straws, and A.J. The heat from the asteroid's approach to earth damages the triggering device, forcing someone to stay behind manually to detonate the bomb. at the controls, they quickly reach the required depth for the bomb. They consider the mission lost until the arrival of the Independence's Armadillo. Harry pushes his crew harder, but in their haste, they hit a gas pocket, blowing their Armadillo into space. Truman alerts Harry, and he is able to get the shuttle commander's help to disarm the remote trigger. The military initiates "Secondary Protocol" to remotely detonate the nuclear weapon on the asteroid's surface, despite Truman's assurance it would have no effect. Their drilling quickly falls behind schedule. Meanwhile, Freedom safely lands on the asteroid, but has overshot the target landing zone, ending over a much-harder metallic field than planned. Unknown to the others, A.J., Lev, and "Bear" (another of Harry's crew) survive the impact and head towards the target site in their Armadillo. was aboard the Independence, is traumatized by this news. The shuttles perform the slingshot around the moon, but approaching the asteroid, the Independence's engines are destroyed by trailing debris, and appears lost when it crashes on the asteroid. A major fire breaks out near the last stage of transfer, and the crews including Lev evacuate to the shuttles just before Mir explodes. The shuttles are launched and arrive at Mir where its sole cosmonaut Lev helps with refueling. The destruction of Shanghai by an asteroid fragment forces NASA to reveal their plans to the world. NASA puts Harry and his crew through a short and rigorous astronaut training program, while Harry and his team re-outfit the mobile drillers, "Armadillos", for the difficult job. NASA sets plans to launch two military space shuttles Freedom and Independence with redundant equipment to increase the chances of success the shuttles will refill with liquid oxygen from the Russian space station Mir before making a slingshot maneuver around the Moon as to approach the asteroid from its backside where the target bomb site is located. 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. Harry and Grace learn about the asteroid, and Harry explains he will need his team, including A. Harry returns to NASA, along with his teenage daughter Grace, to keep her away from her new boyfriend, one of Harry's young and rambunctious drillers, A. NASA contacts Harry Stamper, considered the best deep-sea oil driller in the world, for assistance and advice. NASA scientists, led by Dan Truman, plan to trigger a nuclear detonation 800 ft inside the asteroid that will split the asteroid in two, driving the pieces apart so both will fly safely past the Earth. The core of the comet, now considered an asteroid, will collide with Earth in 18 days, creating another extinction event. NASA discovers that a rogue comet the size of Texas passed through the asteroid belt and pushed forward a large amount of space debris. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.Ī massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis and destroys a swath of land from America's East Coast including New York City through Finland. After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A.
