... Nevertheless he spent most of his adult life in a wheelchair as the muscles and nerves in his body deteriorated rapidly, trapping a brilliant mind in a weak and helpless body. One of Dr. Hawking’s friends is a brilliant engineer and inventor named Peter Diamandis. Peter is a pioneer in making space exploration accessible to people. He has a company that offers zero-gravity flights to the public. So he arranged to fly Dr. Stephen Hawking on one of his flights on a specially modified Boeing 727-200 aircraft ...
