Stephen Hawking Space Flight
A new age in flight.
Stephen hawking space flight. Professor stephen hawking experiences the freedom of weightlessness during a zero gravity flight. Hawking 65 and an entourage. British physicist stephen hawking took a flight on thursday that gave the renowned scientist who is confined to a wheelchair a taste of the weightlessness of space.
After the flight stephen hawking had to say the following. The planes used for parabolic flights are commonly referred to as vomit comets. Stephen hawking will travel to space on richard branson s virgin galactic flight.
One day i hope to go into space stephen hawking quotes. He was the lucasian professor of mathematics at the university of cambridge between 1979 and 2009. During the flight professor hawking s aides lifted him out of his chair and placed him gently on the floor of the plane during the sharply angled climb into the sky in.
The plane took off from the space shuttle s runway at nasa s kennedy space center in florida. X prize founder peter diamandis talks about how he helped stephen hawking fulfill his dream of going to space by flying together into the upper atmosphere and experiencing weightlessness at zero g. Virgin galactic s spaceshiptwo is a reusable winged spacecraft designed to carry up to eight people including two pilots into space and the link between hawking and.
The zero g 0g part was. It was the first time professor hawking the world s leading expert on gravity had a zero gravity experience. If stephen hawking s dream to one day experience spaceflight doesn t come to pass the famed theoretical physicist can at least rest assured that an iconic piece of him will one day be gazing back.
