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Boeing's doomed Starliner craft hit the headlines once again this week, after it started making strange noises .
Butch Wilmore, one of the two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), recorded the capsule emitting an eerie ping, reminiscent of a submarine radar.
However, many concerned space fans - including former astronaut Chris Hadfield - have been rattled by the issue.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter , Mr Hadfield, who was the commander of the ISS back in 2013, wrote: 'There are several noises I'd prefer not to hear inside my spaceship, including this one that Starliner is now making.'
On Saturday morning, Wilmore radioed to Mission Control at Johnson Space Centre to ask why there were now unexplained noises coming from Starliner's speakers.
After a few minutes, Mission Control radioed back to confirm that they were now calling via 'hardline' and could listen to the audio inside the spaceship.
As Wilmore held the microphone up to the speakers, the sound of a strange rhythmic clang could be clearly heard.
'Butch, that one came through. It was kind of like a pulsating noise, almost like a sonar ping,' Mission Control responded.
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