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  • Jackie Wattles
    Writer, CNN Business

    Jackie Wattles is a writer for CNN Business covering the commercial spaceflight industry as the world of rockets, satellites and space travel becomes increasingly privatized. She also works as a breaking news writer and general assignment reporter.

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This artist illustration shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docking to the International Space Station. SpaceX is one of two American companies working with NASA to design, build, test and operate safe, reliable and cost-effective human transportation systems, restoring the nation's human launch capability to and from the station.

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An attendee takes pictures of a mock up of the Crew Dragon spacecraft ahead of the NASA Commercial Crew Program (CCP) astronaut visit at the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) headquarters in Hawthorne, California, U.S., on Monday, Aug. 13, 2018. Astronauts on SpaceX's Crew Dragon will be the first to fly on an American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station on their mission scheduled for April 2019. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

SpaceX test fires Crew Dragon spacecraft ahead of first astronaut mission

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity comes in for a landing after its suborbital test flight on December 13, 2018, in Mojave, California. - Virgin Galactic marked a major milestone on Thursday as its spaceship made it to a peak height, or apogee, of 51.4 miles (82.7 kilometers), after taking off attached to an airplane from Mojave, California, then firing its rocket motors to reach new heights. (Photo by Gene Blevins / AFP) (Photo credit should read GENE BLEVINS/AFP/Getty Images)

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk addresses the media during a press conference announcing new developments of the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft, at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California on October 10, 2019. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images)

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk addresses the media during a press conference announcing new developments of the Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft, at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California on October 10, 2019. (Photo by Philip Pacheco / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images)

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