Stephen Hawking will be weightless sometime today (if it hasn’t already happened).
Free at last from gravity which sucks at his body day and night making his life much much harder. A minute later he will be back to the earthly reality.
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Fearlessly dispensing political, legal and economic analysis (and some whimsy) since 2002
I believe his reaction was “Space, here I come!”
I congratulate all involved in sending the little fella up for four minutes of bliss. I reckon Stephen is worth a week in skylab if someone generous can come up with the roubles. In fact there’s not much of him he should go half fare.