the states astronaut sunita yu , currently on aboard the kennedy aero program , has today broken the record for the longest unbroken spacecraft flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams broken the previous total of 188 days and four seconds set by julian lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record her has set . earlier this time she set a record of 29 events and 17 minutes for time worked by a woman on nasa walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.