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Inside the Launch Abort System Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers assist as an overhead crane lowers the Orion spacecraft that flew on Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014 onto the crew module transportation fixture. 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 will next launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket on Exploration Mission-1.