"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!"

No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, but both probes are reaching the end of their service lives

However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On March 5, Voyager mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California confirmed they have already turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment.