I'll guess nobody did it over land until trains, and I doubt it happened first on military ships. Merchant ships between England and Australia is about 15000 statute miles and took about 55 days. So it would take about 66 trips at probably 60 days per trip. Ten years of sailing not counting time between trips. A there and back was probably rare to complete two times a year, so it would take nearly 17 years at that rate. A rare sailor that had that kind of longevity.

My guess is that it could be Yuri Gagarin or someone affiliated with the Apollo mission.

Took me about 12 years on Delta.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
My guess is that it could be Yuri Gagarin or someone affiliated with the Apollo mission.

I was thinking the same. Maybe some sailors got close prior, but I doubt they achieved it prior to the sixties.

The math = 1,000,000/17,500mph [approx orbital velocity]=57.1428571429 hours needed to cover a million miles.

Me: "Who was the first astronaut to spend over 58 hours in space?"
ChatGPT = "The first astronaut to spend over 58 hours in space was Gherman Titov, a Soviet cosmonaut. "

I’m thinking a commercial airline pilot or WWII ferry pilot.

Not sure how far they traveled, but whalers stayed out of port for years at a time.

FJB via train and 18-wheeler.

We all travel 584 million miles around the sun every year, 1,000,000 miles in about 15 hours at a rate of about 19 miles per second.

Of course, Sol is traveling much faster than that in its galactic orbit.

There is also the component of the Earth's spin, but that is a mere 1,000MPH, negligible against the above numbers.

Took me 12 years driving over the road commercially to get to 1.5 million.

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Originally posted by Shaql:
Took me about 12 years on Delta.

Did it on TWA before the collapse and Delta, probably about 10 years for both combined..

There are plenty of million mile cars out there, I think Volvo and Mercedes give out badges for them.

Irv Gordon's 1966 Volvo P1800 holds the Guinness World Record for highest mileage at over 3.2 million miles. Gordon regularly changed the oil, maintained the car, and kept it clean, but thats like 50+ years

Probably not the first, but this guy got a lot of publicity when he did it in his Tundra

https://www.hotcars.com/millio...rything-should-know/

https://www.roadandtrack.com/c...olvo-p1800-obituary/

Irv Gordon, 3.2 million miles, one car...

I have his autograph.