Artist: Wilf Hardy (biography)
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 13" x 18" (340mm x 455mm)
Date: 1980

This is the unique original Watercolour painting by Wilf Hardy.

From a feature Inside Story: The Women Who Will Conquer Space, portraits of various Astronauts including Donald K. (Deke) Slayton. He was assigned as the docking module pilot of the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project, becoming the oldest person to fly in space at age 51.

This was 13 years after he was prevented from becoming the second American in space by a heart murmur.

Published in Look and Learn #981 27 December 1980.