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Unexplained noises have been heard coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
One of the Nasa astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on board the craft noticed that there was a “strange noise” coming from its speaker.
“I don’t know what’s making it,” he said.
Butch Wilmore, the astronaut who heard the sound, discussed it in a conversation with his colleagues in mission control, on the ground. He asked them to “scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on”, asking them to “call us if you figure it out”.
Mission control noted that it sounded like a “pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping”.
Neither Mr Wilmore nor the Nasa staff in mission control appeared especially anxious about the noise. But Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut …