Mark Carreau

Space Correspondent

Houston, TX

Summary

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.

Articles

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts on Oct. 6 successfully initiated a month-long spacewalk campaign to replace batteries on the International Space Station’s nearly 360-ft.-long solar power truss.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The campaign, which also is to include the first all-female spacewalk, likely will extend into December.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
A German-led research effort has identified organic compounds—ingredients of amino acids, the building blocks of life—in data obtained by the NASA-led Cassini mission as it traversed eruptive plumes rising from the massive subsurface ocean at Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Defense and Space