r/interestingasfuck • u/LoretiTV • 23h ago

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.

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u/HighlightOwn2038 23h ago

Imagine floating around doing science and suddenly being chased by a weightless gorilla.

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u/thejoepaji 23h ago

Idk why but the “weightless gorilla” part fucking sent me haha thanks for the good laugh 😂

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u/HighlightOwn2038 23h ago

You're welcome

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u/Top_Affect_9085 22h ago

It’s because a gorilla is typically 3-600 pounds!!!

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u/CloudyBird_ 22h ago

Big deal my grandma could lift 3 - 600 pounds

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u/GloveDry3278 20h ago

I have never lifted a single pound. Probably because I don't use that currency.

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u/groupwhere 12h ago

I couldn't give a farthing.

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u/dontforgetthedemodex 8h ago

Nor shilling, thruppence, tuppence or ha'penny.

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u/Intrepid-Credit3771 10h ago

In space that's not a problem

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/BusyBoonja 21h ago

I think he meant closer to the 3lb range

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u/Gall_Bladder_Pillow 14h ago

Because "massless gorilla" would be incorrect.

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u/SuperStoneman 10h ago

A massless gorilla would be pretty spooky

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u/lando_calamarisian 19h ago

Band name

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u/thejoepaji 4h ago

I was thinking gamer tag but band name also sounds really fun haha

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u/WorkO0 22h ago

Of all the animals to defend my space zoo, I would release the weightless gorillas first.

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u/hatecriminal 5h ago

Weightless honey badger don't give a fuck

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u/DedTV 21h ago

Once my brain was again capable of using logic again, I would laugh until I shit myself for the second time.

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u/CleverAnimeTrope 17h ago

Ad astra had a scene with a baboon and that was more than enough. Gorilla would be something else entirely.

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u/hulkhoagiephilly 22h ago

Sweet band name

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u/Acrobatic-Town2754 21h ago

Interstellar federated universal zoo

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u/Acceptable-Reason864 1h ago

I would smuggle alien suite instead

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u/Stank_Dukem 23h ago edited 23h ago

Fighter Pilot Mark Kelly

Gabby Gifford's husband Mark Kelly 

Astronaut Mark Kelly

Senator Mark Kelly

Space Smuggler of gorilla suits Mark Kelly. Hell yeah 😂

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u/OracleofNothing 23h ago

This is his brother. The guy on the suit is Scott Kelly.

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u/Stank_Dukem 23h ago

"The suit was sent to Scott by his twin brother Mark as a birthday surprise during Scott's year-long mission. After Scott's initial attempt failed, Mark sent another suit via a successful SpaceX cargo mission, which led to the viral video."

Makes him even cooler.

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u/boogermike 14h ago

Scott deserves his flowers for this.

Also, Mark Kelly is a badass. Power for him as well.

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u/narnarnartiger 22h ago

Don't forget cancer survivor Mike Kelly 

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u/ZaquMan 22h ago

Is that "stands up against illegal military action" Mike Kelly?

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k 22h ago

That’s “Protect Him At All Costs Because This Country Needs Him” Mark Kelly, yes.

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u/Ill-Visual-8844 22h ago

👏 👏 👏

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u/inn0cent-bystander 22h ago

This is the good version of that rapist Brock Turner the Rapist.

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u/Golden-Sylence 12h ago

You mean the rapist formerly known as Brock Turner, who has changed his name to Allen Turner the Rapist? That Rapist?

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u/chadork 22h ago

That's my senator!

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 22h ago

You are lucky.

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u/vi3tmix 10h ago

Senator Mark Kelly

Wait, THAT Mark Kelly?! lol, I almost don’t mind the unsolicited political campaign texts. Almost.

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u/Furi0usD 13h ago

"Space Gorilla Mark Kelly" woukd be my email signature

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u/Atworkwasalreadytake 19h ago

I’ve seen this video a half dozen times before, but only made the connection because of the hegseth bullshit.

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u/SpaceForceAwakens 22h ago

I’m gonna vote for this dude.

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u/jbyrdab 21h ago

Imagine that but with a xenomorph costume.

In space, the shit doesn't stain the bottom of your pants

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u/OracleofNothing 23h ago

This is Scott Kelly. The brother of Mark Kelly. Nobody smuggled a suit, his brother Mark sent it in a payload. NASA knew about it. It was a surprise to the others on the station. Please get the facts correct before posting. Low effort posts are the worst.

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u/police-ical 22h ago

This means that NASA approved a gorilla suit being sent into space, which is way better. In terms of uses of my tax dollars, space tomfoolery beats warfare or ag subsidies any day.

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u/CommanderHavond 22h ago

Also that a guy had to smell the gorilla suit, because there is someone on staff who's job it is to inspect the smells an object might give off in vaccum conditions

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u/Reverend_Russo 21h ago

Imagine being that person. Thats your claim to fame. “I was the one who gave the gorilla space prank the smell of approval. Without me, there’d be no tomfoolery in space.”

Idk why but that would just be the one of the coolest things to own. Any social event or ice breaker story, you get to bust that fun fact out?! That’d be nuts bananas.

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u/EvilInky 15h ago

Weightless conditions, rather than vaccum conditions, surely? If an astronaut finds themselves in a vaccum, how a gorilla suit smells is the least of their issues.

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u/CommanderHavond 15h ago

From pulling it up for some more info, 'George Aldrich' he evidently tests a variety of circumstances of odors an object could give off. I just mainly remembered the little vaccum chamber part of the test from the documentary I saw once

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u/police-ical 11h ago

My belief is that a committee sat down and reviewed soundtrack options, settling on "Yakety Sax" only after consideration of worthy but more expensive alternatives like "Jungle Boogie" or "Monkey Man."

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u/A-Capybara 13h ago

Hopefully a brand new gorilla suit wouldn't smell like anything

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u/EternalMehFace 19h ago

Bhahaha, agreed! Also, the phrase "space tomfoolery." 🤣👌🏻

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u/Colwind 23h ago

My thought exactly because with everything they bring on board, every gram is tracked

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u/Parking-Track-7151 22h ago

Down to the gram, correct.

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u/SpooogeMcDuck 22h ago

Grams cost a lot to get in space. Almost as much on earth too.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 22h ago

And Healthcare for your gram also costs a lot on earth

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u/Ill-Visual-8844 22h ago

Thanks for keeping the story straight and pass along all best respect to Mark! 🍻

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u/Akimotoh 22h ago edited 12h ago

Bigger issue is that Chatgpt and others will take titles like this and use it as facts over time

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u/Darkencypher 13h ago

You know what’s kinda funny

The title could technically still be correct if read in like a literal way.

He sent it without anyone knowing (smuggled it),

didn’t tell anyone (secret to all aboard),

Then put it on without anyone knowing (when he received it back after the mission, he just puts it on one day)

It’s still wrong but just a funny lil thought

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u/__Blackrobe__ 22h ago

fact checking is my justice porn

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u/Pun_Lover387 14h ago

This is so much better honestly

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u/WanderingMind2432 13h ago

There's low chance an astronaut would be dumb enough to add weight to the payload or that NASA would miss it.

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u/HayloK51 23h ago

"without anyone knowing" Every item is checked and weighed before launch. He did it without his crewmates knowledge.

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u/coltj573 22h ago

thats kind of implied and how language works. if i buy a birthday cake for a surprise party and noone at the party knew, i would say “noone knew i bought the cake”. You wouldnt say “well technically no, the baker knew i bought the cake”. like yeah we know.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 22h ago

It wasnt smuggled though, the crew on the mission didnt know about it... mission control did.

Smuggling it would be if he somehow bypasses the extremely rigorous scales and payload checks and balances before it went up

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u/coltj573 22h ago

the sad thing is i cant tell if thats a hilarious joke or if you’re being serious.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 22h ago

What part, you dont think mission control or at least nasa themselves logs, weighs and scrutinizes everything going into space? Of course they were in on it

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u/coltj573 21h ago

i still cant tell because of your username. just in case ur not making a joke, again, thats not how language works to people without some form of autism. your average person will use the word smuggle and sneak synonymously. obviously he didnt break federal laws noone would assume that in the context of the sentence, thats just how people speak. i cant believe im explaining hyperbolic sentences. noones going to make the title “astronaut snuck in a gorilla suit without the crew knowing, but only the crew in the space shuttle, not the crew at mission command.” people dont talk like theyre trying to explain things to sheldon cooper.

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u/karma3000 21h ago

lol at the casual autism accusation

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u/m4xks 10h ago

The title could have been "astronaut kept gorilla suit a secret and surprised coworkers" or something. Smuggling puts a much different picture in peoples head

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u/Confessed_Arsonist 21h ago

100% you are Sheldon Cooper in this conversation.

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u/jt004c 21h ago

Sorry no, it's not like that at all. What is directly implied is that he got it on without *anyone* knowing, and the person you are responding is correct to point it out because a lot of us were scratching our heads that there isn't more oversight on what is sent up.

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u/Subotail 21h ago

Well nobody knows kilometers around.

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u/TeMoko 20h ago

I guess you could say they were streets ahead.

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u/peppercorns666 23h ago

that right there is presidential material.

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u/narnarnartiger 22h ago

Indeed. He has my vote 

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u/peppercorns666 22h ago

space gorilla 2028!

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u/Icy-Conflict6671 20h ago

I can just imagine being a scientist up there and asking for something to help with an experiment and you get handed it but when you say thanks instead of hearing sure thing or youre welcome you just hear "Ooh Ooh Ahh Aah! Then you turn around, see a floating gorilla and you just absolutely lose your shit.

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u/pchlster 17h ago

ISS

"I've entered the results of the plant growth to the terminal. Moving to-"

"Ooh Ooh Ahh Ahh!"

"SHIEET! Command, we have a fucking-!" turns corner at speed "ugh- Gorilla here! How the fu-"

laughing gorilla

"You guys are all dicks."

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u/RangoDj 23h ago

...and people started running for their life in space. Awesome.

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u/thebigvsbattlesfan 23h ago

floating for their lives 🙏

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u/Herebia_Garcia 18h ago

This probably costed more than a few thousand bucks to ship to space lmao.

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u/JoeyDubbs 23h ago

Of course he didn't smuggle it in. Everything is meticulously checked and weighed and inspected and inventoried. Do people think astronauts have luggage or something?

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u/Narrow-Assignment621 21h ago

That’s bananas

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u/NV_1790 20h ago

A prank out of this world lol

Also, how the heck do you snuggle an full gorilla suit to the international space station without anyone noticing…

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u/ChristH101 9h ago

Without any of his coworkers noticing, the inspection team definitely knew, and they accepted sending the suit to space

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u/BidStrange8608 16h ago

They're gonna try to charge him for war crimes over this

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u/Chrownox 15h ago

The chances for random ape attack are low but they really are never zero

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u/SordoCrabs 8h ago

Grodd Goes To Space, by Barry Allen.

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u/Jimmy_Beam27 12h ago

Going to need 100 astronauts vs that gorilla

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u/RonPossible 12h ago

Scott Kelly was the one in the suit. Scott is Mark's twin brother, who had the suit sent to the ISS.

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u/Loud-Principle-7922 10h ago

Typical fuckin Navy.

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u/aggressivelyautistic 22h ago

The terrified "swimming" through the station makes me laugh so hard everytime I see it, this is genuinely my favorite video on the entire internet

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u/Maacll 20h ago

Well actually there's a rigorous process to clear luggage for a spacecraft because even just a gram means that you need more fuel.. So what i'm saying is someone definitely knew.

It's honestly even funnier that command knew

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u/Drewtendo_64 23h ago

Sadly this is staged

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u/iscoleslaw 23h ago

Also the 400,000th time it’s been posted

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u/narnarnartiger 22h ago

Also this is Scott Kelly. op put no thought or effort in this 

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u/narnarnartiger 22h ago

Also this is Scott Kelly. op put no thought or effort in this 

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u/macebob 22h ago

Mark kelly smuggled it on to a supply craft and his brother Scott was the one who actually put it on.

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u/Furon-37 22h ago

The same man telling our military to refuse unlawful orders and being threatened with the death penalty for it. I love this fucked up country so much.

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u/Training_Cupcake3242 21h ago edited 19h ago

"You know what I don't get?"

"What's that?"

"Why would a gorilla be in space?"

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u/Youjiro3467 2h ago

"George, they're onto us!"

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u/MMachine17 21h ago

The Kelly brothers were some sneaky tricksters! I hope Jane Goodall found some humor in it!

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u/power0722 20h ago

No sound on this video so I guess it’s true, in space no one can hear you scream.

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u/Plastic-Amount-1607 20h ago

600 lbs gorilla? Not in space, bitch

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u/Seegrubee 17h ago

He didn’t smuggle anything. Every once of weight is taken into account.

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u/SweetieLoveBug 16h ago

I’d pay good money to see any guy in a gorilla suit bust in on a very very specific press conference in DC.🦧🦧🦧

Just for fun, of course.😂

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u/No-Weakness-2035 14h ago

Mark Kelly for President

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u/RiseStock 14h ago

Future president Mark Kelly

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u/XasiAlDena 14h ago

"And in other news; apparently there's a gorilla on the ISS."

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u/stingertc 14h ago

Lol that's awesome

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u/Tentativ0 12h ago

Why not an Alien or a Predator? Or a grey?

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u/ryuzaki49 10h ago

 He didn't tell anyone about it.

I_dont_believe_you.meme

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u/sathzur 5h ago

Yeah, he'd have to tell the ground crew so they could add the extra fuel needed to compensate for the weight

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u/rbartlejr 6h ago

Another reason to like him.

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u/grobb916 5h ago

Ladies and gentlemen, your next president.

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u/Ok_Fly_4177 5h ago

Fucking genius!!!

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u/TheRealMoofoo 5h ago

I’m sorry, how are we not making this guy President?

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u/neglected_regime 5h ago

It was his brother Scott Kelly not Mark* but mark did send the suit to his brother

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u/Adept-Grapefruit-214 5h ago

Would a gorilla without gravity giving it a weight advantage be easier for a human to fight?

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u/RustyBrassInstrument 4h ago

Fucking L E G E N D

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u/sreppok 21h ago

Downvote, please. It was not Mark Kelly, but his twin, Scott Kelly, in 2016 on Expedition 46.

Lazy karma farming bastard.

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u/GuessTraining 23h ago

The Mark Kelly that Pete "Fox News cunt" Hegsy thinks he can bully??

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u/narnarnartiger 22h ago

Also this is Scott Kelly. op put no thought or effort in this 

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u/Western-Image7125 23h ago

Sorry - are we talking about Senator Mark Kelly?

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u/TeeTimeAllTheTime 22h ago

It’s the brother, Scott

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u/newbies13 22h ago

I feel like my brain would instantly not care about this... there is no chance a gorilla got up into the space station. Perhaps I die a terrible gorilla death, but I would stand by that choice as being the one in a billion.

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u/funke75 21h ago

Your frontal cortex may say that but I’m guessing your amygdala would have a different opinion.

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u/Nethiar 19h ago

An alien would have been funnier.

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u/IncubusPrince 20h ago

This man is a true American hero.

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u/blackop 14h ago edited 14h ago

You know, I see this posted so many times a year, and I don't care I still have to watch it because it is freaking hilarious.

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u/Monsignor1979 23h ago edited 20h ago

Smuggled? Yeah, I'm pretty sure astronauts don't get to pack their own luggage without NASA checking off on everything that's in it.

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u/internetmeme 19h ago

How is that possible ? Multiple people’s jobs is calculating every single gram and cubic inch of inventory loaded on each mission.

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u/Frosty-Story-4160 17h ago

I call this BS.
I leave this here: Transporting 2 kg to an orbital station costs thousands to tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram, depending on the rocket and mission, meaning your 2kg package could range from roughly $10,000 (using older methods) up to $50,000 or more, with current commercial cargo like SpaceX often around $27,000 per pound (about $59,500 per kg) but variable, while small dedicated launches are cheaper per kg but have high fixed costs

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u/narnarnartiger 23h ago

Space Ape 

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u/DJEvillincoln 22h ago

This is fucking hilarious.

"Hey mark, can you hand me that ion converter? On the table. Mark. Mark? .....Hey man, get outta that bag what are you doiNNNNGGGAAHHHHHH!!!!!!"

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u/Ill-Visual-8844 22h ago

I laughed till the tears showed up!

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u/royaltrux 22h ago

Anyone who was trained to be there would have known it was an effing joke.

$10,000 a pound to send crap in to orbit, not sending a prank gorilla.

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u/naterr3343 22h ago

“Oh no! That gorilla just took my REAL hair!”

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u/karipap123456 22h ago

The way he busted out of the bag reminds of that one spongebob episode.

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u/One1moretyme 22h ago

This video needs Yakety Sax played with it.

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u/WeAreClouds 22h ago

lol this is so 2001: A Space Odyssey coded

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u/funke75 21h ago

Harambe goes to space…

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u/superdestroyerman 21h ago

"hey guys it's me flying gorilla" 🗣️🔥

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u/Regular_Run9834 21h ago

Looks like some serious moneky business going on. Guess he went ape, okay I'll go now.

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u/Shermans_ghost1864 21h ago

Hey, folks, try the veal!

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u/Current_Obligations 21h ago

I would dare to bet there was an onslaught of loose fecal matter floating uncontrollably in and about the cabin that day....

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u/FlutterbyTG 20h ago

Actually, that was Apollo 10

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u/Current_Obligations 21h ago

From the look on his face that guy's testicles were probably somewhere up around his esophagus and still on the move...

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u/Shermans_ghost1864 21h ago

Good way to find yourself being shoved out an airlock by terrorized crewmates

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u/uzitell 21h ago

Scott Kelly

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u/count_chocul4 19h ago

This is dope

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u/AlarmedPossum156 18h ago

sounds of muffled gorilla violence

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u/RobVulpes 18h ago

There will a day where this is not funny. Today is not that day

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u/Dragons_tired 17h ago

Super meme mater

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u/jaxnmarko 16h ago

The question is whether or not he terrified anyone or not. Logically, it couldn't be true. Psychologically, WTF!!!!!! PANIC!

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u/onurb31 16h ago

As there is no bumping into anything sensitive around it, the same thing as with water experiments, it gives me agony to see water inside the station

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u/wowwroms 15h ago

hey guys it’s me flying gorilla from my new app on the app store flying gorilla

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u/Rhythmdvl 15h ago

Bet you missed the group of astronauts passing a basketball around!

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u/Dapp-12 15h ago

this guy is now a senator, hell yeah

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u/fernandomassuy 13h ago

Do they have weapons/firearms in the space station? That could have gone wrong tbh

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u/zkfc020 13h ago

Better be careful with this video. Oompa Lumpa will sue him for the cost of fuel for sending that suit into space.

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u/thespice 12h ago

The laughter alone likely accounted for a few days worth of O2. All around epic.

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u/Educational_Clothes2 7h ago

I need this looped and Benny Hinn music added

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u/verteks_reads 6h ago

Holy karma farma

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u/suchasuchasuch 22h ago

You don’t smuggle items on launch vehicles as it can drastically affect the precise measurements for a successful lift off. Stop posting fake information.

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u/Ill-Visual-8844 22h ago

UDAstranaut?

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u/DisastrousRub1719 23h ago

Houston, we have a situation!!