associated states astronaut cosmonaut thomas , currently on board the international astronaut station , has lately tied the records for the largest horizontal solo walk by a femme . at 5 : 47 a . m . ut williams broken the previous record of 188 days and four hours set by travis lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . earlier this century she recorded a record of 29 hours and 17 miles for life spent by a woman on space walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.