Space exploration has more and more protagonists, and proof of this is a new record for people in orbit at the same time. This Tuesday, May 30, 17 astronauts were in the area for a brief period.
They occupied the International Space Station, the ship Axiom-2 and the Chinese space station Tiangong.
This exceeds the 14 people who were in orbit in September 2021. However, it does not break the record for December 19 of that year, although clarifying that six of them were on the Blue Origin ship, crossing the Karman line by the minute.
About this record of 19 people we spoke recently at FayerWayer. We leave the link here.
The protagonists of the new record of people in space
On Tuesday, the 17 astronauts, taikonauts and cosmonauts in orbit were:
International Space Station: Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and Andrei Fedyaev (Russians), Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg (United States); and Sultan Al Neyadi (United Arab Emirates).
Axiom-2 ship: Peggy Whitson and John Shoffner (United States), Ali Al Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi (Saudi Arabia). They were until that day in the International Space Station, splashing down in the early hours of this Wednesday.
Tiangong space station: Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming, Zhag Lu (Shenzhou 15 mission); Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, Gui Haichao (Shenzhen 16 mission). haichao is the first civilian taikonaut in Chinese history.
the soviet Yuri Gagarin (1961) became the first person to be in orbit; Since the early 2000s, there has been a continuous human presence in space, with the first crew of the International Space Station serving as pioneers.
William Shepherd, NASA astronaut, and Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, from Roscosmos, were the first three to inhabit the ISS. They remained for 136 days, between November 2000 and March 2001.