Comments on: Branson and Hawking http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: John Chase http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/comment-page-1/#comment-142623 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:19:57 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/#comment-142623 Why shouldn’t Mr Hawking go into space flight?
I hope he makes it. If there is anyone more deserving, I don’t know of them.
Godspeed Mr Hawking and have a great flight!!
I’m so psyched for you!

]]> By: Personal Spaceflight » Prizes, Hawking, and other news that’s not so new http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/comment-page-1/#comment-58861 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:27:11 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/#comment-58861 […] There was also a hubbub this week when the British newspaper The Telegraph reported that Stephen Hawking plans to fly on a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight. This has been a pretty persistent story, which I last noted here a little over a month ago. (Unlike some other celebrities that have been reported to be Virgin Galactic customers, Hawking does appear to be really interested in going.) MSNBC digs a little deeper into reports that Hawking will first take a zero-g flight some time this year, suggesting that opportunity could come as soon as April, when Hawking is scheduled to visit the US. […]

]]> By: zenpunk http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/comment-page-1/#comment-40433 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:38:46 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/#comment-40433 I don’t know if I would take those comments at face value. Wouldn’t it be too stressful to ride a rocket for someone with Hawkings condition? He can’t move, how could he go zero-g and then get back in his seat?

]]> By: Chance http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/comment-page-1/#comment-39309 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:55:31 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/12/01/branson-and-hawking/#comment-39309 ““morons” who “want to spend billions into a fairy tale journey into outer space.””

Fine, I’m a moron. I just need a billion…heck, 200,000 will do.

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