[Noob1999]

So, our government can spend billions of $$$ to explore space, but can’t come up with the cost of physical storage for some hard disks of information that was collected from their breakthrough experiments??

How screwed up is that????

[PIF]

Worse than this incident is much (and in some cases all) of the early probe data was discarded, including a lot of the Apollo data... some was not actually discarded, but lost in warehouses or deteriorated over time by poor storage conditions. Other data, like this story hints at, was only retrievable by using forgotten computer languages and compilers.