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Listen to the actual audio of a mysterious pulsing sound reported by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft while docked to the International Space Station. The noise was later identified as harmless speaker feedback.

Credit: Space.com | image & audio courtesy: NASA | edited by Steve Spaleta

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00:00Houston on two, got a question about the Starliner. Houston's with you, but you go ahead.
00:13There's a strange noise coming through the speaker, and I didn't know if you could connect into the Starliner and let me hear.
00:21I don't know what's making it, but I don't know if it's something that's maybe connected between here and there, making that happen.
00:28But anyway, can you do that?
00:31We can configure that, Butch. Give us a minute, and I'll call you back when it's ready.
00:34Okay.
00:40All right, Butch, that one came through. It was kind of like a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping.
00:47I'll do it one more time, and I'll scratch your head to see if you figure out what's going on. Here we go.
01:07All right, over to you. How was that? Did you figure it out?
01:09Yep, good recording. Thanks, Butch. We will pass it on to the team and let you know what we find.
01:15And, Butch, just to make sure I'm on the same page, this is emanating from the speaker in Starliner.
01:21You don't notice anything else, any other noises, any other weird configs in there?
01:26No, sir.
01:29Okay. Thank you.

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