Secret_Detective3255 t1_j1mi5hq wrote on December 25, 2022 at 4:52 PM

Reply to comment by BugsyMcNug in Astronaut Peggy Whitson in the Festive Spirit 2016 by Aeromarine_eng

I think one of the astronauts somehow managed to smuggle a gorilla suit up there just to play a prank, which I find hilarious.

Brailledit t1_j1n6vpg wrote on December 25, 2022 at 8:06 PM

Here you go.

smallaubergine t1_j1q4s8o wrote on December 26, 2022 at 2:37 PM

There was no smuggling. Mark Kelly tried to send up the suit twice for his brother Scott Kelly. The crew on board the ISS didn't know about it ahead of time but that's not smuggling.

[deleted] t1_j1n4426 wrote on December 25, 2022 at 7:44 PM

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Areljak t1_j1pwxw3 wrote on December 26, 2022 at 1:21 PM

Which sadly let to NASA making such costumes part of their PR which takes away all the creativity of it.

Hell, I'm guessing this was organized in a similar way.

Scott Kelly wrote in Endurance about, at the end of the his year in space, having to take a while bunch of Fotos of him in the cupola with all sorts of different shirts on to essentially create PR pics for organisations he is associated with. IIRC he was in that mentioned gorilla clip on an earlier ISS mission of his.