How would you summarise hectic days of loading operations, a trans-Atlantic voyage and a pretty intense unboxing for the second European Service Module?

Here is a compilation of time-lapses that would take you through it in less that five minutes.

Both the Bremen airport in Germany and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US, were humming with lunar activity last week.

The arrival of ESM-2 marked an unprecedented milestone: for the first time, three Orion spacecraft were on site at various stages of assembly and integration.  

The second European Service Module is lifted from the plane to a truck at Kennedy Space Center. Credits: ESA–M. Cowan.

Unboxing time! Credits: ESA–M. Cowan