Bruce Willis Apparently Refused to Watch NASA Launch Asteroid-Smashing Rocket – Futurism

He does want to miss a thing. Rough Necks

NASA invited movie star Bruce Willis to the launch of a spacecraft thats gonna smash into an asteroid to see if we could deflect a killer space rock thats the plot to Williss 1998 Armageddon, for those keeping score but he apparently had better things to do.

AsThe Washington Posts Christian Davenport tweeted, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson admitted that Willis isnt attending the launch of the much-anticipated Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, even though the agency invited him explicitly due to his role in the Michael Bay blockbuster.

We didnt want to miss that connection, Nelson said in what is hopefully a nod to the classic Aerosmith love song that served as the films theme song.

For those who were not blessed enough to have watched the film, which featured Aerosmiths Steven Tyler crooning I Dont Want To Miss a Thing during a love scene starring his real-life daughter Liv Tyler, the plot revolves around a scenario similar to the real-world near-disaster at the heart of the DART mission: fears of a Texas-sized asteroid,headed straight for Earth.

In the movie, NASA hires a bunch of oil riggers who are badass enough to go into space and blow it to smithereens. So when reports emerged in 2017 that NASA was planning a mission that seemed remarkably like the one in Armageddon, it felt very much like life was imitating art.

The DART team got so tired of the Armageddon comparisons, in fact, that one of them issued a statement dispelling the mythology, noting that the test is actually of kinetic impactor technology, which is nerdspeak for the small spaceship that NASA is going to fly into the space rock to move it off course.

The idea of a kinetic impactor is definitely not like [the movie] Armageddon, where you go up at the last hour and you know, save the Earth, Nancy Chabot, Johns Hopkins planetary scientist and DART team member, said in 2019. This is something that you would do five, 10, 15, 20 years in advance gently nudge the asteroid so it just sails merrily on its way and doesnt impact the Earth.

But NASA apparently didnt get that memo when deciding to invite Willis who may or may not hate the film to the launch tonight.

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