Here's
a fascinating piece on some fine and admirable work from
Kroll Ontrack - salvaging the scientific data on a hard drive recovered from the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
The Columbia broke
apart during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003. Of the seven crew members there, sadly, were no survivors. A hard thing...
Ontrack was able to preserve much of the contents including data on a test of how xenon gas flows in a zero gravity environment.
Pretty darn impressive for a hard drive that literally fell out of the sky...
-- MDT
Labels: Columbia, data recovery, Kroll