On May 30 , there were more people in range around our satellite than there have ever been before . Hailing from five different countries , the 17 astronauts , cosmonauts , and taikonauts , were split between the International Space Station and Tiangong , the Chinese place station . The previous track record was go under when the privately fundedInspiration4crew blast into field a couple of year back .
On the International Space Station ( ISS ) , there are the members of Expedition 69 , cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev , Dmitry Petelin , and Andrey Fedyaev from Russia , NASA astronauts Frank Rubio , Stephen Bowen , and Warren Hoburg from the US and Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi , the first astronaut from the UAE on a long condition mission in quad ( he even learn part in Ramadan in place ) .
Also on the ISS , there were the members of the private missionary post Axiom-2 : Commander Peggy Whitson , private astronaut John Shoffner , and Saudi Arabian cosmonaut Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi . Barnawi is the first Arab woman in infinite andthe 600thperson to ever orbit Earth . The Axiom-2 crew return to Earth just a few hour ago .
On Tiangong , there were the three taikonauts of Shenzhou 15 – Fei Junlong , Deng Qingming , and Zhang Lu – and they were joined by the member of Shenzhou 16 , taikonauts Jing Haipeng , Zhu Yangzhu , andthe first civilian taikonaut , Gui Haichao . Shenzhou 15 will come back to Earth in a few mean solar day .
This is not the phonograph recording for the big number of people in infinite – it depend on the definition you use for space . If you take the internationally recognized Kármán line – so an altitude of 100 kilometers ( 62 miles ) – the great number of people in outer space was on December 11 , 2021 , when Blue Origin ’s NS-19 got to 107 kilometers ( 66 mile ) in its 10 - hour slip to space and back . There were 19 people in blank .
By last with the US definition of space at 80 kilometre ( 50 mile ) , that record was broken last week with the suborbital flight of Virgin Galactic Unity 25 on May 25 , as the SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity deport six people up to 87.2 km ( 54.2 mile ) . That made a total ( Virgin + Expedition 69 + Shenzhou 15 + Axiom-2 ) of 20 mass in space .
