In space at the same time there were 17 people — it is an absolute record

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With successful start of the Chinese Shenchzhou-16 spaceship the number of the people of Earth who were in an orbit reached record value in 17 people. The previous record was set up on September 16, 2021. Until now at the Chinese space station "Tiangong" there were three taykonavtov, and as much again went to it by the Shenchzhou-16 spaceship. In addition to them the crew from 11 people is now on Mezhdunarodnaya kosmicheskaya stantsiya: three persons from the ship "MS-23 Union", four persons with Crew Dragon, and also four members of commercial mission of Axiom Space AH-2...