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Floating free of his wheelchair, Stephen Hawking participated in the NASA training exercise known as the “vomit comet” and experienced the feeling of zero gravity for the first time. The 64 year old scientist basically rewrote physics and probably knows the secret of life in the universe, so you figure this experience would be about as mundane as blinking. Not so.

Before taking off over the Atlantic Ocean, Hawking acknowledged that experiencing weightlessness even for a few seconds would be a welcome change from life in the wheelchair. “The chance to float free in zero-g will be wonderful,” he said through his computer voice synthesizer during a pre-flight news conference. “I want to demonstrate to the public that anybody can participate in this type of weightless experience.”

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