Popular Science | Tales from the Astronaut Corps: "Partial transcript of a recent interview with ex-astronaut Sidney Gutierrez, veteran of two shuttle missions and leading advocate of a shuttle escape system (see 'Get Out Now').
Sidney Gutierrez: On an earlier flight a window was hit by a little piece of something, and they concluded afterwards it was a piece of chicken the Russians had ejected and was just floating around in space.
Popular Science: How'd they know that it was chicken?
SG: [NASA scientists] got the material and did an analysis on it.
PS: This was on the shuttle?
SG: It was the window on the shuttle. The window had a little gouge on it and they concluded it was made by the piece of chicken. "
Sidney Gutierrez: On an earlier flight a window was hit by a little piece of something, and they concluded afterwards it was a piece of chicken the Russians had ejected and was just floating around in space.
Popular Science: How'd they know that it was chicken?
SG: [NASA scientists] got the material and did an analysis on it.
PS: This was on the shuttle?
SG: It was the window on the shuttle. The window had a little gouge on it and they concluded it was made by the piece of chicken. "
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