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Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

Speakers inside the spacecraft are producing a pulsing noise, and neither astronauts nor Mission Control can identify its cause.

A few minutes later, Mission Control radioed back that they were linked via “hardline” to listen to audio inside Starliner, which has now been docked to the International Space Station for nearly three months. For example, during China’s first human spaceflight int 2003, astronaut Yang Liwei said he heard what sounded like an iron bucket being knocked by a wooden hammer while in orbit. NASA announced a week ago that, due to uncertainty about the flyability of Starliner, it would come home without its original crew of Wilmore and Suni Williams.

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