Manpower and costs for an orbital launch?

"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote:

"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
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Yah, that's the hard in answering the question 'how many people'. We
handled 16 birds in thirty minutes with 20 odd people. But it took
130 *other* people to get us to where we could do our job, and
considerable shore based infrastructure.

Yeah, but onlike say a Delta launch, it was generally considered a "bad day"
if you had to do an operational launch of any of those birds. :-)

Ok, so we substitute a DASO or OT/FOT (I.E. a test launch).

D.
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