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Rhinobird | 1 year ago

The space shuttle was refurbishable. It needed an army of 5000 engineers a few months to get it flight worthy after each launch.

And ultimately that wasn't enough for safety.

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rockemsockem|1 year ago

To be fair, falcon 9 also gets refurbished between flights.

But it's way less time/labor intensive than the shuttle.