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Flight or fancy?

8 hours ago

Writer:

Henry Catchpole | Journalist

Date:

12 November 2026

Being blindfolded in a car is not a pleasant experience. If you ever find yourself in such a situation I recommend closing your eyes. Somehow it feels marginally less unsettling when your brain isn’t expecting to see anything anyway.

Sitting in the back of a Tesla Model Y listening to the chatter between the security guard and our driver, I still wasn’t entirely clear why we were being deprived of sight on the way into SpaceX.

It turned out later that Tesla just didn’t want me getting any clues as to what was going to happen the following evening when they launched (and never has the word been more appropriate) the Roadster.

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