5/9/2021: Ingenuity and Perseverance, The Ritchie Boys

05/10/21 • 50 min

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On this week's "60 Minutes," Anderson Cooper goes inside the dramatic missions to Mars by the tiny helicopter Ingenuity and the rover Perseverance. He reports that NASA's dramatic landing on the Red Planet in February wasn't as smooth as it may have seemed to people watching at home. In a two-part report, Jon Wertheim story of the "Ritchie Boys," a group who used their knowledge of German language and culture to gather more than half the combat intelligence on the Western Front.

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5/2/2021: The Secretary of State, Chips, The Premonition

On this week's "60 Minutes," Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells Norah O'Donnell that he will visit Ukraine next week. This comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin has pulled back in the last few days some of the more than 100,000 troops he's amassed at the Ukrainian border. The demand for microchips in the U.S. is growing, but fewer and fewer are being manufactured domestically. Lesley Stahl speaks with Pat Gelsinger, the new CEO of Intel, and Mark Liu, Chairman of TSMC, the Taiwanese company leading the world in advanced chip production. John Dickerson interviews author, John Lewis, about his book, "The Premonition," which follows doctors and scientists who saw the pandemic coming.

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More police departments across the U.S. are using facial recognition technology, but there aren't well-established national guidelines on how it should be used. Anderson Cooper tells us more. Next month, a government report is expected to be made public on sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, better known as UFOs. Bill Whitaker reports on the sightings. And Tennis legend Rafael Nadal tells Jon Wertheim that self-doubt is the key to his success. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes."

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