united states astronaut lazutina williams , currently on aboard the international space station , has today broken the record for the longest unbroken space flight by a sailor . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams passed the previous record of 188 days and four hours set by ariel lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . earlier this way she set a record of 29 hour and 17 moments for seconds completed by a woman on space walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.