Stephen Hawking In Space, MSNBC
“British billionaire Richard Branson says he’s sending over a medical officer to talk with physicist Stephen Hawking about getting him into space. That’s how the founder of Virgin Galacticrespondedto Hawking’s comment that “maybe Richard Branson will help” him achievehis long-held goal ofreaching the final frontier, even though he’s a quadriplegic who needs a blink-controlled computer to communicate. Branson and other Virgin executives indicated today that if there’s any way on earth to accommodate the good doctor-with-a-disability, they’ll do it. And for practice, Hawking could conceivably experience weightlessness aboard a Zero Gravity Corp. plane as early as next year.”
