American space tourists spent their first day in orbit

The four American space tourists spent their first day in orbit in the SpaceX spaceship, doing scientific research and talking to patients at a hospital for children with cancer, after taking off from Cape Canaveral the day before. The children at St Jude's Hospital were able to talk to the crew of the Inspiration4 mission, “asking them the question everyone asks: +Are there cows on the moon? +” the hospital tweeted. Inspiration4 is the first space mission entirely composed of private citizens on board. The crew “went around the Earth 5.5 times, carried out the first round of scientific research and had a few meals” before going to bed, the company founded by Elon Musk said on Twitter. He said on his Twitter account that he had spoken with the crew and that “everything is fine.”

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A man born in Rwanda in 1949, suspected of being involved in the Tutsi genocide, was indicted on Thursday by a Parisian examining magistrate in particular for “genocide” and “crimes against humanity”, said the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (PNAT).

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