Watch: British Astronaut Tim Peake Chased By A Gorilla In Space

What do astronauts get up to in the vast mindlessness of space? Shenanigans, if the latest video from the International Space Station is anything to go by.

Posted to Twitter by US astronaut Scott Kelly, the video shows our very own Tim Peake being chased around the International Space Station by a gorilla.

Set to the Benny Hill theme tune, the gorilla pops out of a big white bag and proceeds to bob around in the gravity-less space station before chasing our Tim through the narrow corridors.

The question is: who thought to pack a gorilla costume?

It turns out that it was a birthday present that Kelly received from his twin brother - although that doesn’t really explain why he brought it with him…

Good to see they’re keeping busy, anyway.