who could have imagined?

" Professor Hawking reached for the sky and touched the heavens today"

P. Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of Zero Gravity.

Professor Stephen Hawking, a mathematics professor at the University of Cambridge and considered one of the best known theoretical physicists in recent times has been paralyzed and speechless for many years from ALS , also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. His statement today that "I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage the public interest in space. " came after he experienced weightlessness for 25 seconds at a time aboard a specially modified Zero Gravity Corp. jet.
For the first time in 40 years, Prof. Hawking floated free without his wheelchair and electronic communication gear, floated unencumbered by gravity briefly for himself and future space adventurers.
Everyone should have the chance to experience a moment like that in their lives..... a time when they reached for the stars and found the heavens.