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Stephen Hawking Test-Drives Zero Gravity

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 27, 2007 12:32 PM CDT

(Newser) – Paralyzed super-physicist Stephen Hawking completed a zero-gravity flight off the Florida coast yesterday—floating weightless and free of his wheelchair for 25-second busts. "It was amazing,"  Hawking said after the flight. "Space, here I come!" The American firm normally charges...   Read full story »

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