Gorilla Suit in Space: Hilarious ISS Birthday of 2016 Resurfaced on the Web

On the internet, things get a habit of getting revived, and the gorilla suit event is no different. The video revived itself on the internet in recent days since the video turned out to be staged and the suit turned out not to be “smuggled” as the internet claimed. While the story of the event changes from tweet to tweet, and person to person, we tried to bring you the best story we can put together for one of the funniest videos from space. If you do not know what the whole video or the ordeal is about, here is the official tweet from Scott Kelly from 2016, in combination with the video.

The story of Gorilla suit in ISS

Even though it is one of the hardest and most serious jobs in the world, even NASA allows astronauts to have fun from time to time. The story starts with a birthday plan, Scott Kelly’s twin brother, Mark Kelly, sends him a gorilla suit. While the first sending attempt was destroyed along with the SpaceX mission in 2015 with an explosion, 2016 was the year Scott received the gift. The video was seen as a genuine prank made on the other ISS members. However, as the reason why the video got popular again nowadays, Scott Kelly admitted that the whole video was staged. When asked why “we wanted it to look funny.” he says.

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Pay attention to the Space Gorilla!

The story continues with Scott actually pranking some members of the ISS and making everyone in the Russian section laugh. As with the still ongoing attention to the video, Scott made an educational video in 2016 with the suit on ISS. At least we are sure that it did get the attention it needed, while also answering interesting questions about life in space. Here is the educational space gorilla!

What happened to the suit?

According to an article from People, after the educational gorilla video, the suit went on to the trash since Scott Kelly said, “I didn’t want to be responsible for what anyone else would do with a gorilla suit in space.” Well, every once in a while, even astronauts need to have fun, and there must be no better place than that except the magical nature of space with no gravity, filled with smart people and an amazing feeling of the vast universe. If you want to continue your reading while looking at amazing scenery from space, you can also read From Running Man to Black Eye: Here are Stunning Photos of 2021 Taken by Hubble.