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.

It's possible the commenter found the story and inserted him/herself into it, but: https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-rick-mastracchio-waterbury-astronaut-0911-20140910-story.html

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Another film clip showed the crew's excitement when a cargo delivery arrived from earth. It included tortillas, cold cuts and a package of what he called "the greatest hot dog relish on earth." He said he could not mention the source but added that it was nearby the school — a broad hint that it probably was from Blackie's Hot Dog Stand in neighboring Cheshire.

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Hs NASA bio says that "as of 2014, Mastracchio now has logged 228 days in space spanning four missions." His latest mission was from Nov. 7, 2013, to May 14, 2014, one of a crew of three who blasted into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule from central Russia to repair the space station and conduct experiments. They spent 188 days in space, completing 3,008 orbits of the Earth and traveling more than 79.8 million miles before returning to earth.

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