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’s IG is calling for swift action by Congress to lift a costly requirement that the space agency use the Space Launch System rather than a commercial rocket alternative to dispatch the Europa Clipper on a $4.25 billion, high-priority planetary science mission.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Launch services firms may become the space-based trucking companies of the future as NASA accelerates its Lunar Gateway plan.
Space

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 18th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission to the ISS departed the six-person orbiting science lab Aug. 27 with a 2,700-lb. return cargo.
Defense and Space