NASA on Monday responded to an audio recording that surfaced last week of an astronaut asking about an unusual noise that was emitting from Boeing’s Starliner craft.
Audio that was captured during a live NASA broadcast and posted on social media included a transmission between astronaut Butch Wilmore and mission control in Houston. The recording was taken by a meteorologist, Rob Day, who posted it on the NASA Spaceflight (NSF) forum. The audio was ultimately confirmed by NASA.
“I’ve got a question about Starliner,” Wilmore told ground control. “There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker ... I don’t know what’s making it,” he added.
“I don’t know if it’s something that’s maybe connected between here and there making that happen,” he said. After some confusion, he then appears to place the microphone next to the Starliner speaker, producing a pulsing noise.
An official Mission Control is then heard saying: “It was kind of like a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping.”
Astronaut Chris Hadfield posted a clip of the sound recording on X, formerly called on Twitter, writing that “there are several noises I'd prefer not to hear inside my spaceship, including this one that Boeing Starliner is now making.”
In a statement on Monday, NASA provided an explanation for the unusual sound heard in the recording with Wilmore.
“A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped,” NASA said. “The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner.”
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