CYSIASTS: Stephen Hawking wants to take ZERO GRAVITY flight

Stephen Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist who has dedicated his life to studying the mysteries of the cosmos, is betting on briefly reaching them himself.

Despite battling neurogenerative disease for decades, the 71-year-old said during a charity talk in London on Tuesday that travel
of any kind is still very much a passion.

"Being on a ventilator has not curbed my lifestyle," he said using his familiar computer-generated voice.

"I have been to Brussels, the Isle of Man, Geneva, Canada, California ... and I hope to go into space with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. It is possible to have quality of life on a ventilator."

Hawking's training for a possible flight in space actually started six years ago when he experienced eight rounds of weightlessness aboard a specially modified Boeing 727 jet. "It was amazing," Hawking told reporters afterward.

"The zero-G part was wonderful, and the high-G part was no problem. I could have gone on and on."

Just before Stephen Hawkings Zero-Gravity flight an interview was conducted during which he said:-

"Many people have asked me why I am taking this flight. I am doing it for many reasons. First of all, I believe that life on Earth is at an ever increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus, or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."

STEPHEN HAWKING takes a zero Gravity flight

After the flight Hawking enthused:- "It was amazing. The zero-g bit was wonderful...I could have gone on and on. Space, here I come."

Concept of STEPHEN HAWKING after taking ZERO GRAVITY FLIGHT

He experienced microgravity weightlessness on one of the jet flights, such as are regularly laid on, as a commercial enterprise, by the Florida based Zero Gravity Corp. These flights deliberately feature the execution of parabolic plunges that allow passengers to experience weightlessness for bursts of 25 seconds. Each "parabolic" manoeuvre typically begins with a sharp climb to around 32,000 feet, followed by a rapid 8,000-foot descent.

G-FORCE One, the modified Boeing 727 in service with Zero Gravity Corp., before starting a parabola, flies level to the horizon at an altitude of 24,000 feet. The pilot then begins to pull up, gradually increasing the angle of the aircraft to about 45° to the horizon reaching an altitude of 34,000 feet. During this pull-up, passengers will feel the pull of 1.8 Gs. Next the plane is “pushed over” to create the zero gravity segment of the parabola. For the next 20-30 seconds everything in the plane is weightless.

A similar plane to G-Force One is used by the American space agency NASA to train astronauts. The usually young and physically fit Nasa astronauts involved often refer to their own zero-gravity aircraft as the Vomit Comet, because of the regularity with which they lose their lunch to its stomach-churning manoeuvres.
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