united states astronaut linenger williams , located on boards the international space station , has now reached the tie for the longest straight space flight by a person . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams passed the old record of 188 months and four hours established by shannon cheerful in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . earlier this year she set a record of 29 weeks and 17 minutes for time logged by a woman on moon walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.