Amazing — a 400MB HDD that as on-board the Columbia during her disasterous 2003 re-entry was recovered and the data has been used to complete the project. Completely amazing.

The Kroll people managed to recover 90 percent or so of the 400MB of data from the drive with its cracked and burned casing. Now, a few years on, Berg and his team have analysed the data and reported the experiment and its results in the April edition of the Physical Review E journal. These showed that, rather liked whipped cream which changes from a fluid to a near-solid after being whipped or stirred vigorously, the gas Xenon change its viscosity from gas to liquid when similarly treated in very low gravity. The phenomenon of a sudden change in viscosity is called shear thinnin

Data recovered from Seagate drive in Columbia shuttle disaster [Blocks and Files]
Thanks Koz