It comes at a big price, but the hard drive of the Space Shuttle Columbia was found during reconstruction, and 99 percent of the data was recoverable.  It has taken Robert Berg and his team several years to analyze the data from the 400mb Seagate drive, but it looks like there will be some valuable findings.  While not exactly a happy ending, this may let the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew have a hand in helping (and possibly protecting) future missions to come.

Aloha from the Beach,
greg

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