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https://youtube.com/watch?v=oEVhEURltfU
!ifrickinglovescience !spacechads it took off at 5:23 am EDT, I missed it because I forgot 
Spacewalk should happen in a couple of days and it will be broadcasted live.
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!spacechads !historychads a fun fact. There's 16 people on orbit right now
9 astronauts on the ISS (SpaceX Crew-8, Soyuz MS-25 and Starliner CFT)
3 on the Tiangong Space Station (Shenzhou-18)
4 on Polaris Dawn
And tomorrow is the Launch of Soyuz MS-26, so the total will be up to 19 people in orbit, a historical record!
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So the Soyuz ms-26 is going to explode on the pad
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is that the most at any one time?
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Yes. Previous record was 14 every time a Dragon does a rotation flight (since 2021 there are always 7 on the ISS and 3 on Tiangong, so the rotation launch brings up the total to 14 if a Dragon launches or 13 if a Soyuz or Shenzhou launches). Before the 2020s the record was 13, a rotation Soyuz flight to the Mir-Space station coinciding with a Shuttle mission with 7 on board.
Of course the "19 people in space" was achieved in 2021 due to a New Shepard launch (there were 3 on Tiangong, 10 on the ISS and 6 on board of New Shepard for a brief moment), but that's suborbital (like a minute being above the Karman Line). Hence I think 19 people on "orbit" is way cooler.
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