Stephen Hawking and his carer, Monica Guy, get off a bus as they prepare to board a specially modified commercial jet that will dive through the sky to give passengers a taste of weightlessnessPhotograph: Charles W Luzier/ReutersHawking attends a pre-flight press conference at Kennedy space centrePhotograph: Robert Sullivan/AFPHawking floats on a zero-gravity jetPhotograph: Zero Gravity Corp/AP
Hawking makes two weightless flipsPhotograph: Zero Gravity Corp/APThe 727 plane arrives back at the Kennedy space centre landing strip in Cape CanaveralPhotograph: Peter Cosgrove/APHawking is assisted off the 727 aircraft by Monica GuyPhotograph: Peter Cosgrove/APMonica Guy assists Hawking as the crew of the Zero Gravity 727 plane applauds Photograph: Peter Cosgrove/APHawking appears at a post flight press conferencePhotograph: Robert Sullivan/AFP
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