Last week, the Internet was buzzing with news some research had been published based on data that was recovered from a hard disc on the Columbia space shuttle which exploded in 2003, killing its seven crew.

Data recovery specialist Kroll Ontrack recovered data from the mission stored on a 400 Mbyte hard disc that fell to earth.

The data on the disc was the result of 370 hours of experiments that cost the US government millions of dollars. In this podcast Cliff Saran interviews Jeff Pederson, manager of data recovery operations at Kroll Ontrack about the task of saving the data from the experiments.