Stephen Hawking eyes space voyage

I ENJOYED reading “A Brief History of Time” back in college, and I think it’s only fitting for the brilliant theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking to one day venture into space. That’s what he hopes to do by 2009.

So he’s taking the first step with a zero-gravity flight that allowed him to temporarily escape his wheelchair.

Here’s an excerpt from the Agence France-Presse story. Photo also courtesy of Agence France-Presse.

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