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The upper instrumentation payload stack for the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) is lifted toward the mission's lower stack in the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, near Kennedy Space Center. MMS 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 from Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is targeted for March 12. To learn more about MMS, visit www.nasa.gov/mms.