NASA on Monday addressed an eerie noise heard aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft by astronaut Butch Wilmore, who along with astronaut Suni Williams arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in June during Starliner’s inaugural crew flight test (CFT).
The spacecraft is scheduled to autonomously undock from the ISS no earlier than Friday, making way for a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA’s two-person Crew-9 astronaut rotation mission. Wilmore and Williams will hitch a ride home on that Dragon, rather than Starliner, after NASA determined the beleaguered Boeing spacecraft poses too much risk to return with crew as planned.
