Stephen Hawking’s space trip
p2pnet.net OT News:- Stephen Hawking, 65 today, is planning a journey into space. With Richard Branson as his virtual pilot.
Hawking, confined to a wheelchair by MND (motor neurone disease), became famous as the author of A Brief History of Time and, “This year I’m planning a zero-gravity flight and to go into space in 2009,” he told The Telegraph, which goes on, “A zero gravity flight is what astronauts call the ‘vomit comet’, in which an aeroplane flies in such a way that people inside are temporarily weightless.”
Branson’s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo will carry six passengers into a low Earth orbit from 2008.
“At present, a flight costs about £100,000 but Sir Richard will sponsor Prof Hawking’s mission,” says the story.
Hawking recently said all of us will eventually have to make permanent voyages to another star because we’ll have spoiled Planet Earth beyond recovery.
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Also See:
The Telegraph – Stephen Hawking plans to see space, January 8, 2006
another star – It’s time to leave earth, December 2, 2006
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