A record in space travel has been set!
The Russian Soyuz MS-26 rocket launched on Wednesday with NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian crewmates.
The trio joins the 9 other astronauts on board the International Space Station.
12 people orbiting Earth is already a lot, but there are even more out there!
They join the three Chinese taikonauts on the Tiangong space station AND the four people orbiting on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience.
That makes a record 19 people orbiting Earth all at once!
You can see details of those in space right now here.
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