Tonight's Stinker: The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)

Tonight's Stinker The Day the Sky Exploded (1958) https://youtu.be/E5-ddFsICpQ?si=dTwNf0vQzjq-hd-V So, Americans & Russians assemble in Australia to send a manned rocket into space, but first it's ten minutes of excitable newsmen & procedural jibber jabber..... Then, another ten minutes of jibber jabber, then the lab pops the Champaign, then the pilot loses control of the rocket & safely ejects back to earth... Lots and lots of procedural & scientific jibber jabber throughout the movie, a subplot about the pilots strained relationship with his wife & another about a scientist trying to make the moves on a mathematician.... We eventually learn that the rocket kept going, blew up in an asteroid belt & there's a giant meteor headed towards earth, and it takes about an hour for somebody to realize the most obvious solution.... The movie does start to get pretty intense in the second half.....