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Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers monitor the progress as an overhead crane is moved over a transportation container that contains the Orion spacecraft that flew on Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014. Orion is being prepared for transport to Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin's facility in Denver, where it will undergo direct field acoustic testing. This is a technique used for acoustic testing of aerospace structures by subjecting them to sound waves created by an array of acoustic drivers. For the test, several electro-dynamic speakers will be arranged around Orion to provide a uniform, well-controlled, direct sound field test at the surface of the spacecraft. Orion is the will next launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket on Exploration Mission-1.