Inflating a habitat to destruction to test its limits before going to orbit

Normally, it would be a very bad day if your space station habitat module blew up. But it was all smiles and high-fives in mission control when Sierra Space's LIFE habitat was intentionally over-inflated until it popped spectacularly in an Ultimate Burst Pressure (UBP) test. The video below shows the moment of boom from several different viewpoints.

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