Gentlefolk, I concur with Henry, big trunaround crews aren't needed, even with lox. However, the system has to be carefully designed to minimize the amount of labor needed for turnaround. One of the really neat things about DCX is that its powered landing system was the same one that gets it into orbit. The fewer critical things there are to check, the smaller the crew, the faster the turnaround, the lower the risk of error, and the smaller the inventory of spare parts, the less the training time, the less costly the testing program, etc.... One doesn't want anything more on these things than what's needed to get to orbit and come back safely.
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