OrionWorks
Wed, 07 May 2008 06:24:36 -0700
See: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=hard-drive-recovered-from-columbia&print=true http://tinyurl.com/65vhrq excerpt: He [Robert "Bobby" Berg, the lead investigator for CVX-2 and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md.] notes that the experiment could have only worked in microgravity, to prevent the xenon from settling under its feather-light weight. With NASA's priorities shifting away from basic research, he says, "this is the sort of experiment that won't be duplicated for a long time, if ever." Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks