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NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale observatories (MMS), secured in an Atlas payload fairing, glides across the floor of the clean room in which they were processed toward a United Launch Alliance payload transporter at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Titusville, Florida. MMS, led by a team from the 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 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.