Space:
Friday (July 4) is a special summertime holiday for Americans on the ground and also in space.
While people around the United States are barbecuing, drinking cold beverages and enjoying the summer sun, NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station will also celebrate the Fourth of July from orbit.
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
