2008
Hard drive recovered from shuttle Columbia used to complete experiment
by xibe
"The 400MB Seagate drive was originally thought to be destroyed, but workers and engineers reconstructing the orbiter from the remaining debris found it during the process and sent it off for recovery, where 99 percent of the data was extracted."
2006
European Mars launch pushed back
by fredbird
The European Space Agency (Esa) has pushed back the launch of its rover mission to Mars from 2011 to 2013.
The decision will not significantly delay the mission's arrival at Mars.
But it does reflect a growing will to push for an upgrade to the ExoMars project which could raise its cost from roughly 500m euros to 800m euros.
2005
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