A NASA astronaut on the International Space Station on Saturday reported a strange noise coming from the Boeing Starliner. Two NASA pilots are stranded on the International Space Station until Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launch in February. The Boeing Starliner is now scheduled to return to Earth without a team this month.
After hearing a sound coming from the Boeing Starliner, which was about to return to Earth, Astronaut Butch Wilmore contacted Mission Control at Houston’s Johnson Space Center on Saturday, according to The New York Post. After their aircraft encountered issues following a June vision to the International Space Station, Wilson and Suni Williams are now stranded on the International Space Station.
In an audio recording of Wilmore’s communication with Mission Control, the astronaut can be heard saying, “There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker, and I did n’t know if you could connect into the Starliner and let me see if I can let you hear… I don’t know what’s making it, but I don’t know if there’s something that maybe is connected between here and there that ’s making it happen. ”
After hearing the noise, Mission Control told Wilmore, “Butch, that one came through. It resembled a pulsating sound, almost like a sensor ping. Mission Control likewise assured the astronomer that the sound may be looked into.
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Chris Hadfield, an astronomer and former Canadian Air Force pilot, shared an audio recording of the peculiar aircraft sounds on X, previously Online, noting, “There are many noises I’d prefer not to speak inside my spaceship, including this one that @Boeing Starliner is now making. ”
Following reports of Saturday’s sounds coming from the Boeing Starliner aircraft, NASA released a statement, saying, “A pulsing noise from a speech in Boeing’s Starliner aircraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The space station and Starliner had a unique sound arrangement, which gave the speaker the comments. ”
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NASA explained that the space station’s audio system was “complex, ” which allows multiple spacecraft and modules to be “interconnected. As a result, NASA said it was “common to practice sound and opinions. ”
When the team senses sounds coming from the communications system, the crew is instructed to call mission control, according to NASA. “The speech feedback Wilmore reported has no professional effects to the team, Starliner, or stop operations, including Starliner’s uncrewed undocking from the station no earlier than Friday, Sept. 6. ”
