Famed physicist Stephen Hawking will experience weightlessness for the first time when he flies aboard Zero Gravity’s G-Force One next month. The flight, scheduled for April 26, will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will perform parabolic maneuvers during a controlled ascent and descent — in some ways mimicking a roller-coaster ride — so that passengers can experience what gravity is like on Mars and the moon, as well as zero-gravity space.
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Hawking Begins Space Training With Zero-G Flight
Posted by: Katherine Noyes March 2, 2007 10:49 AMFamed physicist Stephen Hawking will experience weightlessness for the first time when he flies aboard Zero Gravity’s G-Force One next month. The flight, scheduled for April 26, will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will perform parabolic maneuvers during a controlled ascent and descent — in some ways mimicking a roller-coaster ride — so that passengers can experience what gravity is like on Mars and the moon, as well as zero-gravity space.