In the halls of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the United States , where bold ideas are written on blackboards full of impossible equations, a group of students conceived a plan that seemed straight out of science fiction.
Their mission: to imagine how to save Earth from an asteroid on a collision course. What they never imagined was that this academic exercise would end up sparking Hollywood’s interest and transforming, years later, into a cult blockbuster film: Armageddon (1998).
Inspired by a real threat
The story begins as a simple class project. In 1967, Paul Sandorff, a professor in an advanced space systems engineering graduate course at MIT, challenged his students to propose a realistic strategy for avoiding the impact of a large asteroid . The task wasn’t to…
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