Experimental Data Recovered from Columbia Disaster Hard Drive


	Experimental Data Recovered from Columbia Disaster Hard Drive

Mohir

5-10-2008 5:48 PM

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columbia, space shuttle, data recovery

Mohir says:

In fact, the data was recovered in only two days, but it took nearly five years to process it in order to reveal the findings of the experiment. Other two hard drives on board Columbia, however, were not that fortunate and the information they were carrying was lost forever.

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