Congress is always difficult to please when it comes to science spending.
Even when it's as glamorous as space flight. We applied Murphy's Law
to NASA's budget and came up with a literally cut-back shuttle.

If you compare the shuttles in both cartoons you'll see that the nose and engine sections
of the shuttle haven't changed at all, but the cargo bay has only one section instead of four,
and the wings are scaled down to fit.
Easy to do today, with Photoshop, Illustrator or GIMP. But back then it required
ruler, paper, calculator, french curves and patience.

The second cartoon on this all ARGH Pproduction page they gave the loving title of
"Shuttle Chuckles" dealt with the complexity of the troubleshooting job there must be
in the Vehicle Assembly Biulding and out on the launch pad.
The obvious isn't obvious to some, and can be very funny
Can you tell what's wrong with the stack as the launch nears? Heh.

These cartoons appeared in the October 1984 issue of Space World magazine.