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At the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, agency and industry leaders spoke to members of the news media as the Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, spacecraft and its Atlas V rocket were being prepared for launch. From left are: Geoffrey Yoder, deputy associate administrator NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington, Omar Baez, NASA launch manager at Kennedy, Vernon Thorp, program manager for NASA Missions with United Launch Alliance in Centennial, Colorado, Craig Tooley, NASA MMS project manager at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Jim Burch, principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, and Clay Flinn, launch weather officer with the 45th Weather Squadron at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.