Perseverance’s landing on Mars in « seven minutes of terror »

published by Jules Bercy About seven months after taking off, NASA’s last vehicle, Perseverance, will still have to survive « seven minutes of terror, » as the ultra-perilous maneuver preceding its landing on Mars is dubbed.  The chosen location, Jezero Crater, is the most dangerous landing site ever attempted. In seven minutes, the rover must go from a

United States: Joe Biden tackles the death penalty

The US president could ask the Department of Justice to stop scheduling new executions. Before an abolition at the federal level? Joe Biden is the first sitting president to speak publicly against the death penalty, a sentence still in effect across the Atlantic. Barely installed in the White House, the Democrat would have discussed the possibility of

Investiture of Joe Biden: imminent departure of the White House for Donald Trump

INVESTITURE – D-Day for Joe Biden: the new American president is sworn in this Wednesday, January 20 at noon local time . Donald Trump, whose departure is imminent, has granted his presidential pardon to 73 people before leaving the White House.  TRUMP SOON ON THE START The future ex-tenant of the Oval Office has already packed

Tesla founder Elon Musk becomes richest man in the world

With the surge in Tesla’s securities on the stock market, of which he holds 18%, the whimsical 49-year-old entrepreneur has passed Jeff Bezos, the boss of Amazon. Elon Musk, the boss of high-end electric vehicle maker Tesla, rose to the rank of the richest man in the world on Thursday (January 7) thanks to the

Valéry Giscard the former President of the French Republic died of the consequences of Covid-19

Giscard had been hospitalized since mid-November, the former head of state in France from 1974 to 1981, he died of Covid-19, he was 94 years old. On September 14, « VGE » had already been hospitalized on September 14 at the Georges Pompidou hospital, in Paris, for « a slight infection in the lungs ». Valéry Giscard d’Estaing died this

DIEGO MARADONA DEAD AT THE AGE OF 60

The 60-year-old former Argentina national team star had surgery to treat a subdural hematoma to the brain a few weeks ago. This Wednesday, Maradona was the victim of a cardiac arrest, at his home in Tigre, city of the Province of Buenos Aires, and hospitalized in emergency. In vain… Idol of a whole people, Diego Armando Maradona