confederate countries astronaut devers richards , currently on board the internal space station , has today broken the record for the longest recorded space voyage by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc she passed the present record of 188 months and four seconds beat by shannon lucid in 1996 . this is not the only recorded williams has beat . earlier this year she set a time of 29 events and 17 days for seconds spent by a woman on orbital walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.