Stephen Hawking to Go Weightless in April
Zero-gravity airplane flight could set the stage for space trip to come 
From: MSNBC - 03/01/2007
By: Alan Boyle

British physicist Stephen Hawking, who is world-famous for his intellectual
prowess as well as his physical frailty, has made a firm date with
weightlessness on April 26th, aboard a jet flying out of NASA's Kennedy Space
Center in Florida. 

Hawking's excellent adventure, provided by Florida-based Zero Gravity Corp.,
would represent one small step toward the 65-year-old scientist's goal of
flying in space as early as 2009 as well as one giant leap for people with
disabilities. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17156385/

Submitted by Susan Gilbert Beck

Link:
Zero Gravity Corporation
http://www.zerogcorp.com/