Unidentified sonar-like sound heard through Starliner's speakers

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As Starliner is prepping to undock from the International Space Station and return to Earth uncrewed in a matter of days, a new mystery surfaces and leaves the crew baffled. On Saturday, astronaut Butch Wilmore alerted NASA's Mission Control about an unexplained "strange noise" heard from a speaker in the spacecraft.

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Safety first: NASA changes return plan for Starliner astronauts

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NASA has decided astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come home in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon from the International Space Station (ISS) due to concerns about the performance of the Boeing's Starliner spacecraft they were on. The agency will send them home on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission, which is scheduled to launch to the ISS in late September.

By the time Wilmore and Williams depart, they will have spent about eight months on the space station. The Starliner flight test was only scheduled to last a little over a week.

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