With her right wrist wrapped up, Michelle Wie of Honolulu walks up the second fairway of Waialae Country Club with coach Sean Hogan, right, during a practice round of the Sony Open PGA Tour golf event in Honolulu, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007.
Stephen Hawking Turns 65 Hoping to go into Space
The British Daily Telegraph reported on December 8 that prominent British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking plans to undertake a journey into space.
The astrophysicist greeted his 65th birthday and said in an interview, “I am planning a zero-gravity flight this year and in 2009. I am heading into space".
A zero-gravity flight duplicates the conditions of space flight by temporarily creating a weightless state in an airplane.
The scientist lives his life in a wheelchair after being diagnosed with a neurological disorder called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis when he was 22 years old. He uses a computer and voice synthesis device to communicate.
Hawking's journey goes out of the earth’s atmosphere and aims to take passengers into low Earth orbit from next year. The trip outside the atmosphere depends on the progress of British tycoon Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism program. Sir Richard will sponsor Hawking’s scheme, costing 193,000 dollars. The scientist is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, once the position of Isaac Newton.
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