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Charred hard drive from Space Shuttle Columbia recovered


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It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with extracting data from a cracked, charred 400MB Seagate drive aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia have done their duty, retrieving 99% of the information written to the disk. The Columbia burned up on re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003, over Louisiana and Texas. Computerworld reports that the drive was found in a dry lakebed and handed to a team at Kroll Ontrack about six months after the tragedy, but the successful recovery has only just come to light. So, you ask, what was on the drive that was so important?

Computerworld reports that the shuttle mission included conducting atmospheric tests.

One of those tests was an experiment for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how xenon gas flows in a zero gravity environment.
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6 responses // Charred hard drive from Space Shuttle Columbia recovered

  • Amazing, 99%! Kudos to those who fixed it! Even though it took a while, that was still a great job.
    But why can't everyone get recovery like that?
    mgoines
  • Most impressive stuff from Seagate, but i wouldn't buy one of their drives incase I ever needed to ditch any incriminating evidence :)
    strange_armour
  • Great job! Thanks for sharing. At least something good may come from such a tragedy.
    patsarts
  • But will they share the data?
    Enjoy_Cannabis
  • Are you not all nuts? Have you learned nothing? If it's got Kroll's name on it there's an illegitimacy about it underneath.
    nickels
  • What do you think they're not telling us? I wonder if it has something to do with all the 'climate change' 'go green' hysteria going on lately?
    patsarts

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