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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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TOPSHOT - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa waves before boarding the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft prior to the launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome on December 8, 2021. - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano, led by Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard the Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0738 GMT. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / POOL / AFP) (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the WFP headquarters in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. The head of the U.N. food aid agency says the drought-stricken island nation of Madagascar is a 'wake up call" to what the world can expect in coming years due to calamities caused by climate change.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon capsule lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX capsule, carrying four astronauts, docks with the International Space Station