Sunita William‘Trapped’ in space: Former International Space Station (ISS) commander Chris Hadfield has warned of “several noises I’d rather not hear inside my spacecraft” after “strange noises” were detected inside Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore’s Starliner spacecraft.
POT had previously issued a clarification and confirmed that the problem was due to an audio configuration issue between the spacecraft and the space station.
Chris Hadfield, the commander of the ISS in 2013, took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) and wrote: “There are several noises I’d rather not hear inside my spacecraft, including this one that @Boeing Starliner is now making.”
The disturbing sounds, which went viral on social media, sparked concern among space enthusiasts, including former astronaut Chris Hadfield.
Addressing the microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), POT The commercial crew had said: “The pulsating sound from a Boeing Starliner spacecraft speaker heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The speaker response was the result of an audio setup between the space station and Starliner.”
Despite NASA’s explanation that the noise was due to the complex audio system used to connect the various spacecraft and modules, social media remained abuzz with theories and fears. Some users compared the sounds to a “horror show,” while others scrutinized Hadfield’s comments given his extensive space experience.
NASA later clarified that the “pulsing sound” had ceased, but that did little to calm the growing speculation on the Internet.
One X user commented: “What you say has a very different effect than what almost anyone else has saying it,” while another suggested: “That’s a Stanley Kubrick-level horror show.”
On Saturday morning, Wilmore reported the strange noise to Mission Control, which described it as a “pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping.” The spacecraft, which had transported Wilmore and Williams to the ISS in June for an eight-day mission, was later deemed too risky to return to Earth with the astronauts on board, NASA announced on Aug. 24.
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