How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

According to an unsourced claim on Wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human</a>), the largest value ever reached for this number was 13 (which is surprisingly low).

This is a testament to how damned expensive it is to get into space. There is no subverting the laws of physics.

I just got shivers as I pictured the changes that would occur on this site over the next three or four centuries were it kept up to date for all that time.

They make you autofollow once you visit the page and are signed into Tumblr, not cool.

More specifically, this is the number of <i>live</i> people in space. I'd be curious to know how many dead people are in space as well (the ones who had their body's launched upon passing).

This site may actually bankrupt NASA if they keep hotlinking that 1.7mb background image.

(that civilians know about :))

Too many satellites. Too few people. Seems like space is infested with robots. Gentlemen machines are winning! And it will be my 1001th(in decimal) birthday before I go where no man has gone before. :(

On NPR this morning I heard that the total number who have ever been in space is about 550. That was a lot more than I thought it was.

I think they mean 'Not on Earth'. Being on Earth is same as being in Space. Earth is in Space.

Not enough.

I think it's kind of surprising how low the number is. Almost certainly because space exploration is underfunded.<p>Over the last few weeks, there has been a lot of talk about the NASA budget, and there are a couple of things I think many people don't know. The total 2010 US Space budget was $64.6B. The entire rest of the world combined spent only $22.5B. NASA's 2010 budget was $18.7B, 83% of the spending for the rest of the world. It's more than a little ironic when those outside the United States criticize cuts to US space spending. Europeans, in particular, may want to consider the paltry $4.6B ESA budget before they criticize the United States. Space spending does need to increase; the rest of the worlds needs to start contributing.

Isn't it closer to 4 billion? Probably more, that we don't know about yet?<p>Edit: Sorry, 6 billion. Didn't mean to make you think 2 bil. people died.