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Cows getting bigger
May I suggest the elephant in the room isn't necessarily real estate. The word in our corner of the Empire is:
2-4 serviceable airframes per VGS, probably closer to two than four.
Fatigue management plan limiting each airframe to 200 launches/year.
An out-of-service date of 2025.
The fatigue management plan doesn't limit 200 launches per year at all. The planning assumptions is only marginally reduced from it's prepause level of 966. Plus there are recovered Vikings with over 7500 launches to use over the next 5 1/2 years if max launches and OSD are to match up.