Gordon "Gordo" Cooper

This is drawing of Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, last of the original Mercury 7 astronauts to go into space. He is also the last American to go into outer space solo, as the Gemini program sent guys up in teams. During his orbit, the computer went on the fritz and he had to hit the booster rockets manually to make it back to earth. Bad timing or the wrong angle would make him bounce off the earth's atmosphere and shoot out into space. He used his time in orbit to make the calculations himself, writing formula's in the condensation on the window (which the Mercury 7's pilot's wisely insisted NASA's engineers put in).

I inked this with Micron Pigma markers. I king of like the results.