the kingdom astronaut sunita williams , now on board the international spacecraft center , has today broken the record for the longest total space flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . et williams passed the preceding record of 188 days and four hours set by shannon lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . older this week she tied a record of 29 hours and 17 % for seconds taken by a woman on space steps .
lefever anousheh had to go in space .