Nasa is reporting that Pioneer 10 has fallen silent.

Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said Tuesday.

What was apparently the spacecraft's last signal was received January 22 by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Deep Space Network. At the time, Pioneer 10 was 7.6 billion miles from Earth; the signal, traveling at the speed of light, took 11 hours and 20 minutes to arrive.

When I was a kid I really wanted to go up into space. I remember reading about Pioneer 10 and everything. In some ways it's impressive that they were able to keep talking toit as long as they were. Damn, I still wanna go to space. It's pretty much impossible currently due to my health, but it's a nice dream.