As if being stranded in house for the foreseeable future wasn’t sufficient … one of many astronauts caught aboard the ISS simply despatched NASA audio of an ominous noise coming from their defective Boeing Starliner plane.
In audio first reported by Ars Technica, astronaut Butch Wilmore might be heard speaking with Johnson Area Heart in Houston … telling mission management, “I’ve got a question about Starliner. There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker … I don’t know what’s making it.”
Mission management configured a means for Butch to play the sound via the cellphone … and after one failed try at listening to it, mission management confirmed, “Butch, that one came through. It was kind of like a pulsating noise, almost like a sonar ping.”
The recording was first captured and shared by Michigan-based meteorologist Rob Dale.
Butch performed the audio as soon as once more for good measure, telling NASA, “I’ll do it another time and allow you to all scratch your heads and see for those who can determine what’s happening.”
Houston confirmed they are going to be passing alongside the recording and can let Butch know what they discover.
As we beforehand reported … Wilmore and fellow astronaut Suni Williams have been stranded on the Worldwide Area Station since June 6, as a result of Starliner’s thruster troubles and helium leaks … after what was presupposed to be a week-long keep.
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Starliner is scheduled to undock from the ISS and try to land again on Earth on autopilot.
As for Butch and Suni … the duo are actually set to return to Earth in February, 2025 — hitching a journey on one in all Elon Musk‘s SpaceX ships.
