A look back at the Polaris Dawn mission, undocumented students and the processing of information in “franceinfo et vous” on Thursday, September 12, 2024

In this new daily meeting, you ask us your questions every day. Thursday, September 12, one question concerns the first private spacewalk in history, the Polaris Dawn mission, by the Space X company. Two of the four non-professional astronauts of the Crew Dragon capsule will taste the vacuum of space, and Mary asks us: “Is the Polaris mission billionaire space tourism or is there scientific significance?” She continues: “Has space become a business like any other? Does this mean that states no longer have the means or the interest to finance such explorations?” The science and environment department will try to answer him.

Another topic of interest in mid-September, when we are still in the back-to-school period: Olivier asks “if schools can refuse to enroll undocumented students, particularly when they do not have legal guardians on French territory”. To answer him, franceinfo called on the Education Without Borders Network (RESF) to find out the number of undocumented students in France, their status and their living conditions.

And then several of you are questioning us about the treatment of current events on franceinfo, like Gregory who wonders on the symptomatic aspect of Taylor Swift’s support for Kamala Harris, or Philippe who judges that plurality is absent from the editorial line when we talk about politics. The opportunity to explain what the States General of Information have produced, which have just published their report, at the end of nine months of work, with the aim of aim to establish new rules against fake news.