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by inglor_cz 942 days ago
You can overdo it with skepticism...

It takes about three weeks to reuse a Falcon 9 first stage and no major parts are exchanged. Which indicates that, unlike with the Space Shuttle, the refurbishment is pretty straightforward.

New parts and work of qualified humans are two biggest cost items and if both are obviously not that high, the total cost of reuse cannot be that high.