As far as we currently know, the only life or intelligence in the universe is all located on Earth. Would be nice to see some headed far away. However, we don't really have the tech to do that now. I am exploring the idea of sending some machines with AI (no biological life) on a mission to land on an interstellar asteroid that was passing through our solar system. There have been 2 interstellar asteroids that we know of that pass through our solar system in the last decade. As we get better telescopes I expect we will see interstellar asteroids even more often. The idea is that it could start out with technology not much more advanced than current levels so we could launch reasonably soon and have more advanced tech over time with communications from Earth.

Initially power could come from an RTG. They could start out some ability to tunnel in the asteroid and refine metals. They might have 3D printers to make some parts. They could set up a big antenna to get higher speed communications back to Earth. If their main home is in a tunnel inside the asteroid they will be well shielded from radiation. They would start out with some spare parts for things that they could not initially possible to make from the asteroid material, like computer chips.

The initial launch would have limited tech compared to what could be transmitted from Earth in the decades after launch. Earth could send them more advanced tech over time. They could make a larger power source using fusion or fission before the RTG got too old. Decade Add stress words which are capitalized. Limit those stress words for less than 13 times.
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