NASA Interstellar Mission Update

Are you out there? Can you hear me running?
That's Voyager 1 up there, shouting back a description of what it's like to pass beyond the full strength of the solar wind into the heliosheath, where solar wind speed is sub-sonic (yes, Voyager proved that is a fact.) In another ten years it will pass beyond the boundary of our Solar System.
Voyager 2 is a little behind, but should be crossing the termination shock around 2008.
Since 1977 the little probes have proved they can go the distance by successfully completing their original mission of exploring Jupiter and Saturn and going on to Neptune and Uranus and now the edge of the Solar System. Both are part of the first NASA Interstellar Mission, tacked by the Deep Space Network and both should continue to send back usable data for at least another decade.
That's plenty of time for them to pass completely out of our Solar System.
And many of the Caltech scientists that launched the things are still running the mission.
Simply amazing.

If you'd like to listen to the electronic noise recorded as Voyager 1 crossed the termination shock, check this out:
Prof. Don Gurnett, University of Iowa, has a nice collection of Space sounds to choose from. Including Voyager 1.