http://www.ted.com X Prize founder Peter Diamandis talks about how he helped Stephen Hawking fulfill his dream of going to space -- by flying together into the upper atmosphere and experiencing...
========== Those of you who know me know how passionate I amabout opening the space frontier.So when I had the chance to give the world's expert in gravitythe experience of zero gravity, it was incredible.And I want to tell you that story.I first met him through the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics.It's a competition we're holding, the second X PRIZE,for the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.We have something called the Genome 100 --100 individuals we're sequencing as part of that.Craig Venter chairs that event.And I met Professor Hawking,and he said his dream was to travel into space.And I said, "I can't take you there,but I can take you into weightlessness into zero-g.And he said, on the spot, "Absolutely...
