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Take off of the Boeing 727 Zero G. 04/2007

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Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-lus90-00100

Date

2007-05-01

A modified Boeing 727 aircraft takes off with physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking will be making his first zero-gravity flight. He announced his plans for a zero-gravity flight to prepare for a sub-orbital space flight in 2009 on Virgin Galactic's space service.