The Final Frontier: Vincent Fournier's Space Project

By LinYee Yuan - August 12, 2011

in Tech

BAF Room 65#02, Guiana Space Center, French Guiana, 2007

Growing up a stonesthrow from Johnson Space Center in Houston, I've always had a special place in my heart for all things related to the space race. French photographer Vincent Fournier has spent the last decade documenting the fact and fiction of space programs from around the world including Guiana, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Norway and the United States. We love his incredible images capturing the sometimes tenuous relationship between man and machine, built structures and the natural landscape. Check out some of our favorite images and travel with Fournier and VBS.tv (after the jump) to NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the last shuttle launch.

Russian ISS, Star City, Russia, 2007

Baikounur City #2, International School of Space, Kazakhstan, 2011

Insat 4B Satellite, Guiana Space Center, 2007

Insat 4B Satellite, Guiana Space Center, 2007

House Searchers, Caussol Observatory, France, 2006

House Searchers, Caussol Observatory, France, 2006

Space Shuttle Discovery following removing of Forward Reaction Control System Module, Orbiter Process Facility Bay 2, KSC, 2011

Sokol Space Suit #2, London, 2009

Kjell Henriksen Observatory #01, Svalbard, Norway, 2010

Apollo Control Room, KSC, USA, 2006

General Boris V, Star City, Russia 2007

MDRS#14, Mars Society, USA, 2008

In case you missed it, we mentioned the Suited for Space exhibition organized by the Smithsonian and currently on show at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

 

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