Normally I'd choose the "simplest possible explanation" which is the government is slow, wasteful, and terrible at everything. But I'm not actually sure Elon y

Normally I'd choose the "simplest possible explanation" which is the government is slow, wasteful, and terrible at everything. But I'm not actually sure Elon yelling "YOLO LEEROY" and hitting the big red button isn't that much more out of the range of possibilities. One would think there would be some internal noise inside SpaceX though, like somewhere an engineer is like "yeah, I'm not sure we should disobey a direct government order".