Stephen Hawking to Take Zero Gravity Flight
By The Associated Press
posted: 1 March 2007
8:50 a.m. ET
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Renowned theoretical physicist , who authored the best-selling book, “A Brief History of Time,'' soon will experience a brief history with weightlessness.
Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and is almost completely paralyzed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, plans to go on a weightless flight on April 26, officials at the flight operator said Thursday.


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