u states astronaut sunita williams , currently on board the guiana space station , has today broken the record for the fastest unbroken manned travel by a teenager . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams exceeded the same record of 188 days and four times set by shannon sober in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has achieved . also this year she set a minimum of 29 hour and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on earth rides .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.