The same location had previously featured as the surface of ‘Tango Urilla’ in Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 Starship Troopers. The surface of the asteroid, where the shuttles Independence and Freedom crash-land, was filmed at the Barry Barber Ranch near the tiny town of Interior, off I-90 east of Rapid City, in the Badlands National Park, South Dakota. It's a global threat so establishing reaction shots were taken in New York, Washington DC and the little towns of Pilot Point, Aubrey and Denton in Texas. It was the site of the Apollo 1 fire, which claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee on January 27, 1967, an event commemorated by a plaque.įilming also took place at NASA’s six million-gallon neutral buoyancy tank at the Johnson Space Center / NASA, Houston, Texas. The scene between Grace and Harry is filmed at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 (LC-34), used by NASA as part of the Apollo Program to launch Saturn I and IB rockets from 1961 through 1968.

The Space Shuttle launch is for real, filmed at the Kennedy Space Center, east of Orlando, in Florida (seen, naturally, in Apollo 13). The South Dakota Peace Officers originated the award to memorialize the girls by recognizing an outstanding cheerleading squad that exemplifies the late leaders’ commitment and dynamism.Armageddon location: Grace and Harry at the Apollo 1 Memorial: Launch Complex 34, Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida | Photograph: wikimedia / Bubba73 Jan Glaze, Shirley Landstrom, Laureen “Kay” McNutt, Terry Blanton, Diana McCluskey, and Gail Flohr died, along with pilot Ivan Landstrom, his wife, Mary (Shirley’s parents), and English teacher and cheer adviser Dorothy Lloyd. The Spirit of Six honors six Rapid City High School cheerleaders who died in a plane crash on March 17, 1968, at Rapid City Regional Airport as they returned from leading Cobbler fans at the state championships in Sioux Falls. The Spirit of Su is given to an outstanding athlete who exemplifies the achievements of SueAnne Big Crow, (Oglala Sioux) a three-time Class A all-stater for the Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes who died in a car accident en route to the Miss Basketball awards. Each March during the state high school basketball championships, revelry and competition pause for more somber moments as the Spirit of Six and Spirit of Su awards are bestowed.

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