We close with a strain of the virus seeming to self-replicate on screen, and a green-screen computer display of END PROGRAM shows up. The Wildfire leader testifies to Congress about the incident, and when asked how to prevent it from happening again, there are no assurances. Direction as professional as the amazing Robert Wise has transformed many and varied styles of movies into cinematic greats, this is another. Science fiction probably has never been more realistically realized on screen - before or since ‘Andromeda’. Recommended to patient fans of sci-fi and those interested in history. The Andromeda Strain Covid From Space in the 70s.

The self-destruct routine kicks off, the key guy is able to disarm the bomb nine seconds before it blows up, and all's well. The Andromeda Strain also suffers from 1950s style overacting, but, overall, the film is bearable. They find a source of it, just as the virus - they named it the Andromeda Strain - begins to eat away at the rubber seals of the research center. In the underground lair, the place is rigged with a nuclear bomb in the event of contamination the bachelor guy is given the override key (in case the self-destruct thing goes off). They are taken underground to do their work to solve the problem, as the virus (returned to earth from the satellite, which is later shown was developed at Wildfire) seems to be expanding. The four smarty pants folks visit Piedmont, find a 6-month-old baby and older guy with ulcers still alive.

A star crew of scientists and doctors are gathered to investigate, working out of the Wildfire Project office (a chemical warfare research site, we later find out).

The two Army guys sent to recover it are overcome and die at the site. Military satellite Scoop VII falls to earth, landing in Piedmont, New Mexico. Frank's Spoiled Movie Endings | The Andromeda Strain (1971)

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