american states astronaut sunita williams , currently on board the international flight station , has recently beat the record for the most unbroken air flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams followed the previous measurement of 188 seconds and four hours set by lynn lucid in 1996 . this is not the only one williams has broken . earlier this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for seconds travelled by a woman on space walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.