Astronaut Mark Kelly smuggled a full gorilla suit aboard the International Space Station

On social media, a video clip purportedly showing a person in a gorilla suit emerging from a bag on the International Space Station (ISS) has gone viral.

The video has received hundreds of thousands of likes on Twitter and has been shared by a number of users.

Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly did, in fact, arrange for a full gorilla suit to be sent aboard the ISS.

Astronaut Mark Kelly once smuggled a full gorilla suit aboard the International Space Station. He didn't tell anyone about it. One day, without anyone knowing, he put it on. pic.twitter.com/6P7LfC69b5

— Latest in space (@latestinspace) July 9, 2022

Mark Kelly left the space agency in 2011, and Scott Kelly left in 2016.

Kelly posted a video of himself bursting out of a bag dressed in the gorilla suit and chasing British astronaut Tim Peake around the International Space Station.