But safety is also key, advised George Nield, Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation at the Federal Aviation Administration.

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"We want an environment that is conducive to testing, " says Patricia Grace Smith, associate administrator for FAA's Commercial Space Transportation division.

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He served as associate administrator in the U.S. Department of Transportation in the 1970s.

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"Manufacturers saw that it was cheaper to manufacture in Bangladesh and places like Cambodia than China, especially to those manufacturers in Europe, where transportation was cheaper than from China, " says Katie Quan, associate chair of the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Labor Research and Education.

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