Stephen Hawking In Zero Gravity
It was the first time professor hawking the world s leading expert on gravity had a zero gravity experience.
Stephen hawking in zero gravity. 302 on hearing this sir richard branson offered a free flight into space with virgin galactic which hawking immediately accepted. In 2007 i had the incredible opportunity to fly professor stephen hawking the world s expert in gravity into zero gravity aboard a specially modified boeing 727 200 aircraft called g force one what made that flight extremely special was that hawking s illness a disease called als had rendered him immobile and wheelchair bound for more than 40 years. After the flight stephen hawking had to say the following.
World renowned british theoretical physicist stephen hawking who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis escaped his wheelchair for 4 minutes on thursday to travel in zero gravity on nasa s. Hawking taking a zero gravity flight in a reduced gravity aircraft april 2007 in late 2006 hawking revealed in a bbc interview that one of his greatest unfulfilled desires was to travel to space. The zero g 0g part was.
Professor hawking who suffers from motor neurone disease was able to float free unrestricted by his paralysed muscles and his wheelchair.