united us scientist sunita williams , when on board the indian space squadron , has today broken the history for the last ever space flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams passed the previous average of 188 days and four periods set by shannon vivid in 1996 . this is not the only record she has beat . again this weekend she set a standard of 29 weeks and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on spacecraft walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.