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TehBamski @lemmy.world

5d ago

TIL: There is a website called WhoIsInSpace.com that sleekly catalogs who is in space, the spacecraft that brought them up, when they launched, and how long each have been in space for.

whoisinspace.com Who Is In Space - Live Updates

Who Is In Space is constantly updated to make sure you can easily find out how many people are in space.

Who Is In Space - Live Updates

They even have a page for Active Robots Exploring Space!

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As you can see on the site right now, the number of people in space right now is ten. For those of us that follow spaceflight, the most exciting day was when, for a few minutes, there were TWENTY. That is a record for all of humanity. We've never had that many in space at once ever.
- Wait this is fascinating! When was this?
  
  Jan 26 2024
  "For a few minutes on Jan. 26, 20 people were in space at the same time. The International Space Station (ISS) hosted 11 of them — seven long-term crewmembers and four visitors on the private Ax-3 mission — and three occupied China's Tiangong space station.
  The other six were aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane, which reached suborbital space on the company's Galactic 06 mission. Four of those six were passengers, while two were piloting Unity on Galactic 06, which lasted about an hour from liftoff to touchdown. "
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  Thank you!! I shall share this with friends :)

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