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Tesla is back with something that blurs the line between car and stunt reel. The new Roadster Rocket can flip through the air, clear a row of vehicles, and stick a landing on SpaceX thrusters. But don't get too attached — it's invite only, not street legal, and not arriving until two thousand twenty eight.
Across the Atlantic, France is watching a familiar tension resurface. An online movement against rising fuel prices is drawing fresh crowds ahead of nationwide demonstrations on October seventeenth, with original Yellow Vest figures rallying behind high school students. Observers are already drawing comparisons to the protests that shook President Macron's first term back in two thousand eighteen.
And at NASA, there's a new face leading one of the agency's most storied facilities. Stephen Cash has been named director of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama — a full circle moment, as Cash began his engineering career at Marshall more than four decades ago. Administrator Jared Isaacman called the center's contributions to NASA's mission simply historic.
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