New Highscore! (19 humans in orbit)

Soyuz MS-26

• Alexey Ovchinin
• Ivan Vagner
• Don Pettit

SpaceX Dragon Polaris Dawn

• Jared Isaacman
• Sarah Gillis
• Scott Poteet
• Anna Menon

Boeing Starliner CFT

• Butch Wilmore
• Sunita Williams

Shenzhou 18

• Li Guangsu
• Li Cong
• Ye Guangfu

Soyuz MS-25

• Oleg Kononenko
• Tracy Caldwell Dyson
• Nikolai Chub

SpaceX Dragon Crew-8

• Matthew Dominick
• Michael Barratt
• Jeanette Epps
• Alexander Grebenkin

Who Is In Space (archive snapshot)

This surpasses the previous record of 17 people in orbit set in 2023. There were 20 people in space (50 mile definition) last year as well, but six of them were not in orbit (Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo).