Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has savoured weightlessness, flipping in the air after years of being able to make only tiny facial movements.

THEORETICAL physicist Stephen Hawking is to make a “zero gravity flight” in the US. Prof Hawking, who uses a wheelchair and is almost completely paralysed by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, plans to go on a weightless flight in Florida on April 26, the flight operator said yesterday.

British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is to make a zero-gravity flight in the US.