Trying to Outrun the Space Storm

(Oh man I wish I'd written this one down this morning.  So many of the details are gone already.  Even most of the narrative is lost...)

Towards the beginning of the dream, I was on some sort of space craft.  It was a fairly large and spacious craft that had lots of windows.  There weren't much in the way of lights on in the interior of the craft, but with the large windows, there was enough light coming in from the stars, planets and other celestial bodies that I could see fairly easily, comparable to a nightlight in a single bedroom, although the light was blueish. There were a few other people around, and we were supposed to be working together on something, but I think at some point we had to head back to Earth for something.

Later we were on Earth, and it was day time.  I was near a balcony type of area in a large house, almost like it may have been the White House or something.  Soon, something came down from above and landed on the balcony.  It was either the people I had been on the space craft with, or it was new people, or a mixture of both.  I want to say that the craft was just above the building, and they came down via something like a rope ladder.  There was some brief discussion and it turned out there was some impending cosmic event that was coming up very quickly, and we had to go to try to either take care of it or outrun it.  Somewhere in all of this, President Obama was involved.  I think he may have been one of the new people in the group that was saying we needed to go.

Soon I was back up on the space craft, and pretty quickly things started to escalate.  Whatever the event was (an explosion?  an implosion?  space-time just falling apart?) the craft started to move quickly away from it, trying to outrun it.  It looked a lot like big clouds that just kept expanding faster and faster, full of light, and it was catching up to us.  I feel like there was a good bit of discussion about whether or not we should try to stop at certain planets to try to "think our way" out of this situation, but we didn't really have time. 

I feel like the dream ended with us getting right on the verge of getting caught in the edges of the event and feeling like we could have done more to get this thing stopped.