NRM: "While Curiosity ventures forth, NASA has already detailed its plans for Mars in 2020. These will include looking for signs of past life, and demonstrating the technology for future human exploration of the Red Planet."
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
