Astronaut dressed in gorilla suit pranks crew in space, old video going viral

When a person has to spend too long at one place, he gets bored easily. To make matters fun for himself and the team, an astronaut decides to dress up as a gorilla aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The video of the astronaut using the suit to prank the crew in zero gravity was shot in 2016 but is again going viral on social media.

This clip has been shared by Historic Weeds on Twitter. In the video, American astronaut Scott Kelly, dressed in a gorilla suit, is seen climbing out of a white bag. Within seconds, the gorilla can be seen chasing British astronaut Tim Peake. Mr. Peak is seen running away from the gorilla in Zero Gravity.

Watch the video below:

The biggest space prank ever in the history of the International Space Station pic.twitter.com/i23GaBNlxR

– Historical Videos (@historyinmemes) February 22, 2023

Years after the incident, Mr. Kelly said in an interview people magazine that he and his twin brother Mark Kelly had played a key role in the prank. “I was on the phone with my brother one day and he said, ‘Hey, I’m sending you the gorilla suit. And I said, ‘Why?’ And he goes, ’cause there’s never been a gorilla in space before’,” Mr Kelly said in the 2022 interview.

Mark Kelly vacuum-packed the suit and put it on an unmanned SpaceX mission in June 2015. However, in 2016, he sent the suit again and this time the delivery was successful.

Since being shared online, the hilarious clip has collected over 6.7 million views and 65,000 likes. The caption of the post read, “The biggest space joke ever in the history of the International Space Station.”

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One user said, “That’s why I want to be an astronaut.”

“It’s like that one SpongeBob episode,” added another person.

“This is the definition of a sense of humor!” a third person commented.

A fourth person said, “This is the absolute genius of Scott Kelly.”

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