Space Station Astronaut Reports Bizarre ‘Sonar-Like’ Noises Coming From Empty Starliner Capsule
‘I’ll let y’all scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on,’ the astronaut tells NASA engineers at Houston.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station reports that the empty Boeing Starliner capsule docked at the station has begun making strange noises, the cause of which has baffled NASA engineers on the ground and amateur space sleuths. Captain Butch Wilmore, who has been aboard the space station for nearly three months, radioed back to Earth on Saturday to ask them to help decipher the noise.
“There’s a strange noise coming through the speaker, and I didn’t know if you could connect into the Starliner and hear,” Captain Wilmore said. He then held his microphone near a Starliner speaker inside the craft, which emitted a distinct pulsing sound that resembled cymbals. The man at Houston who was receiving Captain Wilmore’s transmission described it as a kind of “solar ping.”
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