NASA astronaut hears 'strange noises' from Starliner

A NASA astronaut on the International Space Station reported hearing a "strange noise" from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft Saturday, shortly before its scheduled autopilot return to Earth.

Astronaut Butch Wilmore contacted Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston about the noise he heard.

On an audio recording of the exchange, Wilmore holds up a phone to the speakers so that Mission Control could hear the noise he was referring to. A pulsating sound emanating at steady intervals can be heard through Wilmore’s device.

"Butch, that one came through," Mission Control says after not hearing it the first time. "It was kind of like a pulsating noise, almost like a sonar ping."

"I’ll do it one more time and let you all scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on," Wilmore tells Mission Control, playing the sound one more time.

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[ChrisHill-zx]

Anything made by Boeing I’m not flying in.

[nummnut]

Its the sound of an entire planet of whistle-blowers all being silenced at once. 🐈

[DonnrMC]

The engineers are giving us their location

[sourgrapes]

Metal expansion and contraction...they need to ensure they don't lose a pressurized cabin?

[butziporsche]

Mother's deciphered part of it. It doesn't look like an S.O.S. Ash : What is it, then? Ripley : Well, I... it looks like a warning.

[barrybarlowe]

Check to see if gas or fuel are venting. It sounds a little like water hammer. Since there are no moving parts on starliner when it's docked, that's my next guess: they are losing fuel or other liquid reserves. The container that's doing it, is "lugging" as the liquid/gas escapes.

[henkvandenbergh]

Those are distress signals from Congress: “with Boeing getting out of the Starliner business, where are we going to get our (re)election ‘contribution’ checks from?”

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[Danielo]

Aliens telling them starliner is trash

[MrTransporter]

Lol I can’t help but thinking Red October movie

[caiolimacaldas]

It's like someone is hitting with some metal.

[YuSayinFuqery]

If Butch gets Sunny pregnant.. would the kid technically be an alien?

[jonsupp]

poor nasa feel so bad for the lack of success.they work so hard to do what they do.

[nummnut]

You exceeded 85 mph so we cannot honor your warranty. 🐈

[FirestormDDash]

I bet the ping is the awakening of the Princess Godesses that were smuggled on board in some mission critical equipment a decade ago.

[nummnut]

When you let the Ewoks and Sand people build your spacecraft on an asteroid to reduce emissions.

[richardhernandez]

It's either a rat or a cockroach that simple. It's not rocket science.

[fnqmezq]

I have it on good authority that the two stranded astronauts are furious and homesick being stuck up in space. They were part of a conference between NASA and Boeing and they were pissed. It wasn't disclosed the the astronauts were part of the conference because it would be bad PR for everyone involved that they were angry at this situation.

[rajathispore]

Put your ego aside and ask the Russians.