On average, our moon is 238,855 miles away from Earth. If you were to impossibly try to drive there, at the UK's national motorway speed limit of 70mph, it would take you over 3412 hours, or 142 days. And that's just for a one-way trip. It's an unfathomable distance, and yet it's really not that far in the grand scheme of things—Venus is the closest planet to us (most of the time, at least), and that's 24 million miles away at best. You wouldn't catch me attempting the trip.
NASA's recent Artemis 2 mission, which saw astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen fly around the moon, travelling further than any human in history, covered a total distance of around 700,237 miles. Again, that's incredibly far—it took the astronauts ten days.
To one-up the astronauts' achievements, Kojima Productions decided to track and compare the Artemis 2 mission's journey to gamers' humble delivery driver efforts in Death Stranding 2's post-apocalyptic America. In the same ten-day period from April 1 until April 10, players across PS5 and PC travelled a total distance of 969,703 miles during ...
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