That is the plot in “When Worlds Collide”...................
Great book.
It also works for Bugs Bunny when he is about to crash into the ground but steps out of the plane/rocket at the last second.
Awesome 1950s sci-fi!
Glad to see I’m not the only one that’s read Immanuel Velikovsky.
Did you also read Earth in Upheaval and Ages in Chaos, and Mankind in Amnesia?