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.
NASA has assigned two of its astronauts to the SpaceX Crew Dragon-4 mission to the International Space Station, planned for a date yet to be set in 2022.
If NASA hopes to mount a human expedition to Mars by 2039 using nuclear in-space propulsion, it must make significant decisions linked to the architecture and funding this year, according to an independent assessment requested by the agency.
As it proceeds with the largely in-house development of a third-generation spacesuit, NASA plans to turn to a commercial provider once it has evaluated the prototype garment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and carried out Artemis III, a return to the Moon’s surface with humans.
