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Re: Data in Columbia flight recorder apparently survived.

Not just apparent but valid:-

http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Click on the top picture of the man and the computer screens to get a list of images showing the tape playout - lots of interesting looking wiggles, so should be progress on the debug.

Alternatively, call up a list of images for "Columbus investigation" in the top category menu

Note that the data logger got its own T-38 to fly between recovery, cleanup, and download.

One comment, given the importance of this data logger for analysing a disaster during re-entry, perhaps it needs to be fitted into a capsule that can survive independent re-entry, and has a parachute for softlanding a radio transmitter to aid recovery.

next time, it may not be so easy to find!

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