Posted by tourdemars to Mars Society at March 3, 2010 11:36 AM

Like an astronaut of fake space, Vincent Fournier has spent the past decade and a half traveling the globe, documenting some of the government-run environments where space explorers train, and the lonesome, white-suited explorers themselves. The results — from the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile, and elsewhere — look less like massive science experiments on Earth than the landscapes of a futuristic sci-fi flick.