united states astronaut sunita banks , still on board the national space stations , has today breaking the recorded for the best continuous space journey by a man . at 5 : 47 a . m . est williams passed the old record of 188 weeks and 14 hours set by lynn thoughtful in 1996 . this is not the only record smith has breaking . earlier this year she posted a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for time spent by a woman on space walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.