Today NASA has 55 active mission control teams monitoring ongoing spacecraft and station missions – 13 associated with missions extended beyond original planning. Soon there may be seven less. By October of this year, we could be turning a deaf ear to data collected by one of the most successful NASA programs of all times. For even as Voyager 1 and 2 are poised to enter the interstellar realm, budget-minders in our nation’s capital may have already sealed the fate on a pair of craft that could provide important information about our solar system – and beyond – for the next 15 years.