In mid-2006, Voyager 1 will be more than 9 billion miles from the sun. Voyager 2 will at a distance of 7 billion miles. Both craft are healthy and continue to send data back to Earth. In the next ten years, scientists expect the Voyagers to cross the heliopause, the edge of the bubble created by the sun's supersonic wind, and become the first craft to reach interstellar space.
Learn more:
http://www.nasa.gov/voyager
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
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