united states astronaut sunita yu , recently on board the international space station , has today broken the record for the largest sustained orbital walks by a human . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc has broken the prior record of 188 days and four hours set by shannon cogent in 1996 . this is not the only record hughes has passed . earlier this year she fixed a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on orbit walking .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.