Tuesday 25 October 2022

As Halloween Is Just around The Corner,

there will be a few pranks going around, 


image credit NASA/Scott Kelly, and not that this has anything to do with Halloween, but I thought it was one hell of a prank, we all know that as far as the International Space station is concerned, every ounce taken up cost a fortune in fuel, which means that gorilla suits are a definite no - no, or so everyone thought, Spence Todd on Twitter wrote that "astronaut Mark Kelly once smuggled a full gorilla suit on board the International Space Station. He didn't tell anyone about it. One day, without anyone knowing, he put it on." the prank was the idea of Scott's brother Mark, who in 2015 rang Scott and told him he was sending a gorilla suit, as there had never been a gorilla in space before.

the footage is 100 percent real, and was tweeted out by Scott Kelly in 2016, the first suit blew up on a SpaceX mission in 2015, but by now he was committed to the bit, and vacuum-packed a second gorilla suit the following year, this one made it, but, 

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Scott shot the video with Tim Peake, who was in on the idea, "That's all staged," Scott told People. "That's why he's floating around, swimming in air, we wanted it to look funny." as disappointing as it is to learn the footage isn't a genuine astronaut fleeing in fear of a space gorilla, the two did not inform others that there was a gorilla suit on the space station, and Scott used the opportunity to hide in the sleeping quarters until a fellow crew member came in, "When he went to open the door, I busted out of there," Scott said, adding, "afterwards I was a little worried that I could have given him a heart attack or something." for the full story have a look here, as far as pranks are concerned, bringing a gorilla suit into outer space has got to be up amongst the craziest!



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