“On an earlier flight a [shuttle] window was hit by a little piece of something. They concluded afterwards it was a piece of chicken the Russians had ejected and was just floating around in space.”
NASA astronaut Sidney Gutierrez (Popular Science, 19 September)
“I can’t believe we collected science data all the way in. What a machine.”
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Galileo project manager Claudia Alexander (Los Angeles Times, 22 September)
“Inappropriate laboratory procedures and the cross contamination of West Nile virus samples with SARS coronavirus in the lab led to the infection of the student.”
Statement by Singapore’s health ministry on its most recent SARS victim (23 September)
“The Wrights flew into a 25-mile-per-hour wind. I think we could have flown if we had that.”
Mike Gillian, pilot of a replica Kitty Hawk that failed to take off (The Washington Post, 21 September)
“It’s time to treat Africa’s malaria epidemic like the crisis it is.”
Bill Gates, whose charitable foundation has donated over $100 million to malaria research (Reuters, 22 September)
“Dad was totally out of it, and Lulu was sitting by him in the bush making this really unusual yapping noise until Mum got there.”
Luke Richards, whose father’s pet kangaroo alerted his family after he was knocked out by a falling branch (Reuters, 23 September)
