Steve CarterCongratulations to Artemis II. Travelling a huge 700,000+ miles. Welcome home. Out of interest, that's almost as far as Ted has travelled - currently standing at 789,010 miles... and counting :)
Peter Henry@GetCarter Just putting his feet up for a year Ted would travel 584 million miles around the Sun.
Pedants should qualify Artemis II records in DFT units (Distance From Trump) - you're welcome
JdeBPBut so to would Artemis 2.
In the reference frame of the Solar system's barycentre, Ted and #Artemis2, whilst not co-moving, have similar paths now that they are both on Terra.
We'd need to pick a reference frame closer to home, where Artemis 2 is now stationary and Ted continues to move. WGS-84 is the obvious choice, I think. I suspect Ted is already being measured in it.
I *definitely* wouldn't pick one with a billionaire as the origin point. The billionaire hopping onto a private (or even public) jet would make it seem like Artemis 2 was moving once again. Aside from complicating what is already a non-inertial frame, this seems like cheating to keep raising Artemis 2's total. (-:
Artemis 2 does get legitimate credit for a few thousand extra km, though, because the service module took its own path around the globe after separation from the crew module.