Science data recovered from Columbia disaster

Spotted this online:

...."When we got it, it was two hunks of metal stuck together. We couldn't even tell it was a hard drive. It was burned, and the edges were melted," said Edwards, an engineer at Kroll Ontrack Inc., outside Minneapolis, Minnesota. "It looked pretty bad at first glance, but we always give it a shot."

During Columbia's fateful mission, the drive had been used to store data from a scientific experiment on the properties of liquid xenon.

Most of the information was radioed to Earth during Columbia's voyage. Edwards was able to recover the remainder, allowing researchers to publish the experiment in the April issue of a science journal, Physical Review E.

That led Kroll Ontrack to share details of its salvage effort....

Read the article from cnn.com.

Seanie.

It's amazing what survived the breakup intact - hard drives, the MEDS recorder plus worms which had been part of an experiment aboard the Spacehab module. Re-read the CAIB report this weekend, hints at some chilling stuff re. the crew module and how long the crew survived the initial breakup of the Orbiter.

Re-read the CAIB report this weekend, hints at some chilling stuff re. the crew module and how long the crew survived the initial breakup of the Orbiter.

Got a link online to it Brian?

I googled the complete phrase above and got a large number of hits, so try this one
www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/09/columbia.data.ap/

I googled the complete phrase above and got a large number of hits, so try this one
www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/09/columbia.data.ap/

That's the link I originally posted in the first post William!

eh caib.nasa.gov/ :-)