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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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00:08Houston, I'm two. I've got a question about the Starliner.
00:11Houston's with you, Butch. Go ahead.
00:14There's a strange noise coming through the speaker.
00:16And I didn't know if you could connect into the Starliner and let me keep the mic and let you
00:21hear it.
00:21I don't know what's making it, but I don't know if there's something that's maybe connected between here and there
00:26making that happen.
00:28But anyway, can you do that?
00:30We can configure that, Butch. Give us a minute, and I'll call you back when it's ready.
00:33Okay.
00:39All 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 can figure out what's going
00:50on. Here we go.
01:07All right. Over to you. Call us to 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.
01:20You don't notice anything else, any other noises, any other weird configs in there.
01:28Okay. Thank you.

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