| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 |
| Stephen Hawking hopes for a space jaunt |
Hawking may go for a zero gravity flight, and perhaps on a space flight in 2009.Sixty-five years young Stephen hawking nurses a dream. The renowned British astrophysicist looks forward to a trip to outer space. He has also made his plans very clear.
The Daily Telegraph newspaper has quoted him saying that he is planning a zero-gravity flight, to go into space in year 2009.
How does he want to fly? Hawking says he hopes to travel on British businessman Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic service, scheduled for a 2009 launch. It has been reported that Branson’s service will charge space tourists about US$200,000 for a two-hour, suborbital trip, 140 km above Planet Earth.
With year 2009 not far away, Hawking’s dream is likely to turn true. As the trip happens, it would be Hawking’s real life travel through a world he has written about and lectured about all along. Branson also wants to help the scientist realize his dream of space flight.
However, whether Branson would ask Hawking to pay up for the trip or not is not known. May be he won’t, feel many. The company has not discussed the issue of payment with Hawking, yet.
Hawking uses a wheelchair and communicates with the help of a computer as he suffers from a neurological disorder called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. His theories and research on black holes, origins of the universe, and many more have been path-breaking. Interestingly, the scientist has also said that the survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy Earth.
Hope Branson would help him find the answer to where to go in case Planet Earth is on the verge of dying.Labels: Tech |
| posted by a correspondent @ 11:16 PM |
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