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On 9/12/24 10:44, kymhorsell@gmail.com wrote:

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New World Record Set With 19 Humans In Earth Orbit At The Same Time IFLScience, 12 Sep 2024 13:31Z

Yes, indeed,, and Lynn McGuire gives this count:

From one of my buddies:

“If I'm counting correctly, there are a record 19 people in space right
now.
There is the normal 7 person ISS crew,
the two astronauts that flew to ISS on the Boeing Starliner test flight,
the three who just arrived on ISS via the Russian Soyuz for a standard
crew rotation,
the four commercial astronauts on the Polaris Dawn Dragon mission, and
the three crew on the Chinese space station.
That's 7 + 2 + 3 + 4 +3 = 19.”

Amazing. Maybe we will hit 100 in the next ten years.

Lynn

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a425couple wrote on 15/9/24 8:32 am:

On 9/12/24 10:44, kymhorsell@gmail.com wrote:

[RECORD!]
New World Record Set With 19 Humans In Earth Orbit At The Same Time
IFLScience, 12 Sep 2024 13:31Z

Yes, indeed,, and Lynn McGuire gives this count:

From one of my buddies:

“If I'm counting correctly, there are a record 19 people in space right now.
There is the normal 7 person ISS crew,
the two astronauts that flew to ISS on the Boeing Starliner test flight,
the three who just arrived on ISS via the Russian Soyuz for a standard
crew rotation,
the four commercial astronauts on the Polaris Dawn Dragon mission, and
the three crew on the Chinese space station.
That's 7 + 2 + 3 + 4 +3 = 19.”

Amazing.  Maybe we will hit 100 in the next ten years.

Lynn

Hmm! I had been wondering about the ISS. When showing the Boeing
Starliner crew now stuck on the ISS, there are ONLY ever the two
Starliner Astronauts shown, so I thought they were the ONLY people on
the ISS a.t.m. .... but it would seem there are NINE on the ISS!!
--
Daniel

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