Hawking enjoys weightlessness on jet flight

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

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

“Space, here I come”, Hawking said yesterday after going on a two-hour jet flight that creates 25-second bursts of weightlessness for its passengers by making parabolic plunges.

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