In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey the ship's computer HAL killed most of the astronauts on board. Luckily, NASA's latest addition to its crew is a bit friendlier.
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.
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