{"id":6002,"date":"2026-10-16T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/elon-musk-unveils-flying-tesla-roadster\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:13:59","slug":"elon-musk-unveils-flying-tesla-roadster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/elon-musk-unveils-flying-tesla-roadster\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Unveils Flying Tesla Roadster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> McGREGOR, TX \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company\u2019s long-awaited next-generation Roadster on Thursday, October 15, demonstrating an electric sports car equipped with SpaceX-developed thrusters that can launch the vehicle into the air, perform aerial maneuvers, and land back on its wheels. The dramatic demonstration took place at a SpaceX testing facility in McGregor, Texas, nearly nine years after Tesla first introduced plans for a second-generation Roadster. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FBYWy6SyJRZo%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk unveils Tesla&amp;apos;s new Roadster, and it can fly\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYWy6SyJRZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> The unveiling marked a major milestone for a vehicle that has faced repeated production delays and drawn considerable speculation about its promised performance. During the event,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/elon-musk-unveils-flying-tesla-roadster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGREGOR, TX \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company\u2019s long-awaited next-generation Roadster on Thursday, October 15, demonstrating an electric sports car equipped with SpaceX-developed thrusters that can launch the vehicle into the air, perform aerial&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6004,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}