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.
As NASA struggles with cost and schedule challenges in the development of the Space Launch System and Orion crew capsule, it is facing similar difficulties with another key piece of hardware, the Mobile Launcher.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s planetary science decadal survey for 2023 to 2032 has some significant new themes—astrobiology and planetary defense—according to a virtual presentation sponsored by the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC).
