The major motion picture Armageddon starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton was filmed on location at Kennedy Space Center.

Scheduled for release in the summer of 1998, the major motion picture "Armageddon," starring Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton, was filmed on location at Kennedy Space Center in October and November 1997. The Touchstone Pictures movie, directed by Michael Bay, is about an asteroid on a collision course with Earth, threatening to strike our planet and threaten all life on it.