It ’s take four and a half years , but the data point convalescence specialists charge up with distil data point from a cracked , char 400 MB Seagate thrust aboard the ill - plump Space Shuttle Columbia have done their tariff , recollect 99 % of the information pen to the magnetic disc . The Columbia burned up on re - first appearance on Feb. 1 , 2003 , over Louisiana and Texas . Computerworld reports that the cause was found in a dry lakebed and handed to a squad at Kroll Ontrack about six month after the disaster , but the successful convalescence has only just come to Inner Light . So , you ask , what was on the drive that was so of import ?
Computerworld cover that the shuttle deputation included acquit atmospheric tests :
One of those exam was an experiment for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how xenon petrol flows in a zero gravity environment .
Phew , glad they recovered that data . No , seriously , it ’s seemingly very valuable information . To someone . In fact , investigator just relinquish the datum in an academic issue .
I know , I know : Why do n’t they make the shuttlecock out of the same stuff they make the drive ? The non - standup - comic solvent is that two other drive on the shuttle were all irrecoverable , so there ’s definitely a luck element here . [ Computerworld ]
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