Thirty-Three Lives and a Thousand Gifts

On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. The rescue that followed became a masterclass in what happens when every gift matters. Drillers from three countries worked around the clock to bore through solid rock. NASA engineers designed a rescue capsule narrow enough to fit the shaft — just twenty-one inches wide.…