[neilv]

> Launched almost 46 years ago in 1977, the twin Voyager probes continue to send back data from beyond the Solar System.

> I checked with Nasa, which has assured me that the spacecraft are still being controlled from the same beige cubicle in an annex of its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that I visited in 2017, marked with a homemade cardboard sign reading: "Mission critical hardware – PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH".

I throw around the term "mission critical" maybe too easily. Because that beige cubicle with the homemade cardboard sign sounds humbling.