NASA explained to its astronaut the reason for the strange sounds on the Boeing Starliner

The strange sound that astronaut Barry Wilmore heard on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft stopped and was related to the specifics of the International Space Station's audio system, NASA news director Cheryl Warner told Newsweek.

"The loudspeaker feedback was the result of sound tuning between the space station and the Starliner," she said.

According to Warner, the audio system on the space station can connect "several devices and modules," so you can often hear noises there.

The Starliner ship with two passengers on board, Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, went into space on June 5, 2024. The mission was supposed to last eight days, the return of the astronauts was scheduled for June 13-14. However, due to a malfunction of the ship, the return date was constantly postponed. On August 24, it became known that the astronauts would return to Earth no earlier than February 2025 — already on another ship.

Earlier, Ars Technica, citing a recording of Wilmore's conversation with the Mission Control Center (MCC) in Houston, reported that the Boeing Starliner began to make strange noises.

"I have a question about the Starliner. There's a strange sound coming through the speaker... I don't know what's making it," Wilmore told the dispatcher. The astronaut suggested that this could be due to a malfunction in the connection of the ship with the ISS.