Peggy Whitson is the third human with the most hours in space

How many times have you walked through space? Assuming that the vast majority of our readers are not astronauts, I think not once. Already Peggy Whitson - NASA's biochemist and flight engineer - broke today (30) the record of spacewalking by a woman: the astronaut floated through the void outside our atmosphere no less than eight times, beating the previous record, which belonged to also American Sunita Williams.

Whitson walked through space for about six and a half hours around the International Space Station (ISS), his eighth outing in total and his second in a series of three scheduled this month to update the ISS to receive possible commercial flights in the near future.

Big ass woman!

The astronaut's mission was to install high-tech devices on the outside of the ISS to facilitate docking of spacecraft at the station. This measure aims to increase vehicle traffic at the station, which, in addition to continuing to receive more and more government rockets from researchers and scientific devices, can now accept commercial landings as they begin to take off from Earth.

In terms of hours in space, it ranks third in all of humanity, behind only 68-hour Anatoly Soloyev and 67-year-old Mike Lopez-Algeria.

And Peggy Whitson doesn't just stand out for this record. She has spent six months at ISS in 2002, her first trip. She was there again in 2008, when she was the first female commander of the International Space Station. Today, she is the oldest woman to have emerged from the earth's atmosphere and, in total, already has 59 hours of spacewalking.

This is no small feat: in terms of hours in space, it ranks third in all of humanity, behind only 68-hour Anatoly Soloyev and 67-year-old Mike Lopez-Algeria. Check out the following video for Whitson walking around the ISS and beating this historical record:

Via TecMundo.