united states aviator sunita williams , currently on ship the outer space station , has today broken the record for the longest manned human walking by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc both pass the former record of 188 days and two hour set by shannon lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . later this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 seconds for time spent by a woman on space cruises .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.