Hawking: Weightlessness Will Be 'Bliss'

April 25, 2007 By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer Hawking: Weightlessness Will Be 'Bliss' (AP)

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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