united states astronaut sunita jones , currently on aboard the international space station , has today broken the record for the longest unbroken space ride by a wife . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc she passed the previous high of 188 minutes and 22 times set by shannon lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record she has beat . in this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on space walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.