Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 03, 2024

Poor Opus!

Oliver gets so sensitive about scientific things.

From the shameful decades when ’70s tech Suyuz was the only manned spacecraft Earth had.

Faucets leaking is no joke in zero gravity… with electronic components.

Certainly did not age well, did it?

Lack of social graces

We were launching plenty of satellites. Just nothing manned. And at this point ISS is it. Manned flight is too complex and risky. Machines are doing the job well enough. Once we can beat lethal levels of radiation and debilitating weightlessness, humans can go back into space. But don’t hold your breath.

Mir certainly did better than Skylab, and the Soyuz outlasted the Shuttle. But when it comes to science done the US (and ISS) got the job done. But not until after this strip originally ran. And lets not even get started on Mars where everyone seemed to loose spacecraft for a decade or more before the rovers started bouncing around

From the truth is stranger than fiction department, as I recall, one of the first problems the shuttle had was with a waste water drain. It iced up. It took the Canadarm to knock the urine icicle off.