united s officer devers williams , currently on boarding the international space station , has lately broken the record for the longest total space flight by a woman . at 5 : 47 a . m . utc williams broke the previously record of 188 days and four hours reached by allen lucid in 1996 . this is not the only record williams has broken . earlier this year she set a record of 29 hours and 17 minutes for space worked by a man on land walks .
Anousheh Ansari paid to go in space.