american states astronaut sunita thomas , then on boards the national spaces mission , has today beaten the record for the deepest unbroken space flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . . williams passed the previous record of 188 months and four hours set by shannon lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . later this year she posted a date of 29 days and 17 minutes for life spent by a feminist on sky walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.