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It's a little crowded in space. There now a record number of 19 people up in the heavens. The record was after the three-person crew on board a Russian Soyuz capsule at the International Space Station (ISS). On the recent mission were NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. They the number of residents on the ISS to 12. Chinese astronauts also part of the record. They three "taikonauts" on the Tiangong Space Station. The remaining four space travellers part of SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission. That project a historic first ever civilian spacewalk last Thursday.

There is a point of contention the recent record. That is over the definition of where outer space starts. NASA and the U.S. military the boundary Earth's atmosphere and outer space as 80 km above sea level. With this interpretation, the record for humans in space is 20, set in May 2023 and in January of this year. However, the conventional definition of the edge of space is called the Karman Line. The International Aeronautical Federation this line at an altitude of 100 km above sea level. The new record this definition. The Karman Line is for legal purposes to between what an aircraft and a spacecraft.