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SpaceX pushed "sniper" theory with the feds far more than is publicly known
“It came out of nowhere, and it was really violent.”…
After ULA won an $11 billion block buy contract from the US Air Force to launch high-value military payloads into the early 2020s, Musk sued in April 2014. "When SpaceX came to us and said we want to load the crew first and then the propellant, mushroom clouds went off in our safety community," Phil McAlister, the head of NASA's commercial programs, told me for Reentry. In their goal of rapidly fueling the Falcon 9 rocket, the SpaceX teams had filled the pressurized helium tanks too quickly, heating the aluminum liner and causing it to buckle.
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