Columbia Legacy

This post at SPACE.com details a recently-published book, Columbia: Final Voyage: The Last Flight of NASA's First Space Shuttle, which talks about the people and science involved in the last flight of the orbiter, rather than focusing on the accident itself.

The coolest bit? That experiments and recorded data survived the breakup of the shuttle, and (along with data transmitted during the mission) the research is being used by scientists today. The work those astronauts did wasn't lost.