Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting. He has written on U. S. space policy as well as NASA's human and space science initiatives.
Mark was recognized by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and Headliners Foundation as well as the Chronicle in 2004 for news coverage of the shuttle Columbia tragedy and its aftermath.
He is a graduate of the University of Kansas and holds a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communications from Kansas State University.
Northrop Grumman’s 17th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station departed early June 28, ending a four-month stay that included a successful demonstration of the commercial freighter’s ability to reboost the outpost.
NASA’s lunar Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment small satellite successfully launched from Mahia, New Zealand, early June 28 U.S. time.
NASA and Northrop Grumman have reported a successful, first-ever limited orbital reboost of the International Space Station on June 25 using the gimbaled delta velocity engine on Northrop’s Cygnus resupply mission capsule.
