China and the United States are planning to establish stations on the Moon and Mars. Thus, there will be relatively many people outside our planet. But it won’t happen soon. So far, there are usually about a dozen people in space at the same time, but a new record was recently set.

What is known

The historic achievement was achieved thanks to the Chinese mission Shenzhou 16 and the commercial mission Axiom Mission 2. Due to the coincidence of schedules, there are now 17 inhabitants of the Earth in space at the same time.

Crew-6:

• Stephen Bowen;
• Warren Hoburg;
• Sultan Al Neyadi (Sultan Al Neyadi);
• Andrey Fedyaev.

Soyuz MS-22:

• Sergei Prokopiev;
• Dmitry Petelin;
• Francisco Rubio (Francisco Rubio).

Axiom Mission 2:

• Peggy Whitson (Peggy Whitson);
• Ali Alqarni;
• John Shoffner;
• Rayyanah Barnawi (Rayyanah Barnawi).

Shenzhou 15:

• Fei Junlong;
• Zhang Lu;
• Deng Qingming.

Shenzhou 16:

• Jing Haipeng;
• Gui Haichao (Gui Haichao);
• Zhu Yanzhu.

Chinese astronauts are at Tingong station. The Soyuz MS-22, Crew-6 and Axiom Mission 2 crews are working on the International Space Station (ISS). Note that the four astronauts of the commercial mission will soon go to Earth.

There were 14 astronauts in space prior to the Shenzhou 16 launch. This is the previous record. In addition, such a number of people were on the ISS and the Chinese station Tingong in the fall of 2021.

Source: Who is in Space