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HAWKING ON SPACE TRAVEL
In this extract from How To Make A Spaceship, Stephen Hawking explains why he said yes when offered a seat on Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo and (0) C .
‘I have no fear of adventure. Years ago I barrelled down the steepest hills of San Francisco in my wheelchair. I travel widely and have been to Antarctica and Easter Island and (1) .
In 2007, after my sixty-fifth birthday, I did something special: I experienced zero gravity. It temporarily took away my disability and (2) . After forty years in a wheelchair, I had four wonderful minutes of weightlessness. I travelled in a modified Boeing 727 jet over the ocean off Florida which (3) . It has always been my dream to travel into space, and the experience was amazing.
Now I have a chance to travel to the start of space aboard a Virgin Galactic SpaceShip. Richard Branson is opening spaceflight up for ordinary citizens, and (4) . I immediately said yes to Richard when he offered me a seat on SpaceShipTwo. I have lived with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, for fifty years. When I was diagnosed at age twenty- one, I was given two years to live. I was starting my PhD at Cambridge and (5) whether the universe had always existed and would always exist or had begun with a big explosion. As my body grew weaker, my mind grew stronger. I lost the use of my hands and (6) , but I developed ways of travelling through the universe in my mind and visualising how it all worked.
I believe that we need a new generation of astronauts to explore our solar system. These first private astronauts will be pioneers, and (7) . It is my belief, and it is the message of Julian Guthrie’s book, for which I have written the afterword, that there is no limit to human effort. Raise your sights. Be brave and kind. Remember to look up at the stars and (8) . Space, here I come!’
(https://www.theguardian.com)
| A) | facing the scientific challenge of determining |
| B) | gave me a feeling of true freedom |
| C) | why we need a new generation of explorers |
| D) | not at your feet |
| E) | if I am lucky, I hope to be among the early passengers |
| F) | down in a submarine |
| G) | could no longer write equations |
| H) | trying to catch them |
| I) | they will help to change the world for good |
| K) | did manoeuvres that took me into this state of weightlessness |