Hawking: Weightlessness Will Be 'Bliss'
April 25, 2007 By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer
Physicist Stephen Hawking answers questions during an interview in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, April 24, 2007. Hawking will go on a weightless flight on Thursday, April 26, aboard a modified Boeing 727. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
(AP) -- Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has been confined to a wheelchair for most of his adult life, expects weightlessness to feel like "bliss" when he goes on a "zero-gravity" flight Thursday aboard a refitted jet.
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