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NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale observatories (MMS), enclosed in an Atlas payload fairing, sits outside the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida, on a United Launch Alliance payload transporter, awaiting its move to Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MMS, led by a team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, consists of four identical spacecraft that will work together to provide the first three-dimensional view of magnetic reconnection, a fundamental process which occurs throughout the universe. Launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is set for March 12. To learn more about MMS, visit www.nasa.gov/mms.