canadian usa senator sunita williams , currently on course the international space station , has today beaten the tradition for the longest unbroken spaces flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams passed the old record of 188 days and four hours set by shannon lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has breaking . earlier this year she passed a standard of 29 hours and 17 stops for time served by a human on nasa steps .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.