Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 04, 2023

Mom did some real FAST unwrapping there!

By launching your wagon to Mars, maybe.

To learn how to be an astronaut, (or anything else for that matter) Calvin, you have to actually learn things.

if only his folks could pay admittance to space camp

I’m sure his parents often get the urge to send him to space.

Depends™ on how creative you are

Astronauts don’t have to worry about getting stuck to a cold bench.

They learn to keep their BFMs shut, Calvin.

It’s the same Calvin. They just float.

That kid will never get out the door!

Just another hurdle to overcome.

Timing never fails. 50’s Friday night high school football. Suited up – shoulder and hip pads, helmet jersey, tight knee pants, knee socks, cleats, coach saying ’let’s get out there and show these guys some football,’ and . . . drat, gotta use the toilet.

This idea could have been expanded into a Spaceman Spiff story arc if Calvin hadn’t spoken his thoughts to Mom.

That’s what you get for sharing, Calvin!

Reminded me of this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iab9YKocUcw

Next time, Calvin, it’s before you get your coat on….☺️

Please… They way you normally behave, NASA will think you’re already a astronaut… FROM ANOTHER PLANET!

They wear a diaper and a catheter under their suits.

Getting 3 little kids dresed for a Canadian winter, my mum often had to unwrap someone quickly. Even though she warned us ahead.

Interesting: the links to the right of Explore Calvin and Hobbes include, “Never Leave Home Without Your Spacesuit.”

I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know about the catheters…

Astronaut Russell Schweickart wrote a book about going to the bathroom in zero g. He called it “Ain’t No Graceful Way.”

Yeah, right… Poor Mom, and WHERE is Hobbes when he is needed?

Don’t…even…think…about…it…

Once my b-i-l when dressed and leaving for work in an office decided to pass gas on the way out the door. Passed more than he had bargained for! (Was late for work.)

One of the origional astronauts was a wet-back.

They CAN, but then they have to walk around with it in their suits until they get to a changing station.

Alan Shepard had to take a wizz in his suit just prior to his first flight because NASA didn’t think to have a relief tube installed. They still didn’t have one built into the suit when Gus Grissom went up, so they gave him a condom. (Ref. “The Right Stuff”)

I can think of several things that are not related to bodily functions.

They can put their arms down?

I’m old, so I understand that really old astronauts don’t even need the suit. :)

Astronauts pee in their suits!

Who told him that, I’d like to know…

I remember how “The Fairly OddParents” joked about that quite a few times in the episode where Timmy’s dad becomes an astronaut and is about to go on a long space mission to Uranus (another “dirty” joke they couldn’t resist throwing in).

Calvin misses that ‘warm feeling’.

Mmm, their space suits are designed to handle that particular process.

That’s one thing from the space program you wish carried over to everyday life. There are times that could be helpful.