Similar to “Meteor,” in this one NASA hires an oil rig driller (!) played by Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element, Die Hard) to lead a team on the Space Shuttle to go out and set a nuclear weapon on an asteroid headed toward Earth.
Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Keith David, Owen Wilson, opening narration by Charlton Heston.
When this one came out, the real NASA announced that the plot wouldn’t work in real life because all the smaller pieces of the asteroid or meteor would hit the Earth like a giant shotgun blast, causing even more damage.

Billy Bob Thornton later starred in “The Astronaut Farmer.”