Inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians monitor the progress as the Orion crew module adapter simulator that will be used for Exploration Mission-1 testing is lowered by crane onto a transport platform. The adapter is being prepared for shipment to the agency’s Glenn Research Center’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. NASA is gearing up to test a structural representation of the ESA (European Space Agency)-provided service module for Orion. The test article will be subjected to mechanical and acoustic vibration, pyro-shock, and other tests at Plum Brook Station’s Space Power Facility, where the liftoff environment the service module will endure can be tested. The adapter, which connects the crew module to the service module will be mated with the ESA service module prior to testing. ESA’s service module will be delivered in October.