Stephen Hawking goes into space

london - The famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is, if everything goes according to plan, the space. That said Hawking Tuesday to a British television program.

For the scientist, who suffers from ALS neurological disease, so is a dream from which he had never imagined that it would come out. On camera Hawking told the British businessman Richard Branson allow this opportunity for him.

Branson has offered him a spot on one of its commercial space flights of Virgin Galactic. 'I immediately said yes,' said Hawking, who thought that no one would dare take him ever.

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Virgin Galactic is the ruimtetak of the Virgin Group, but the company is experiencing setbacks. The first flight was scheduled in 2009, but still remains in tests.