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.
The newly arrived crew supplies, research gear supporting more than 250 science and technology investigations and station hardware includes the International Docking Adapter-3, which was stowed in the Dragon capsule’s unpressurized trunk.
The Green Run is a precursor to Artemis 1, the first test launch of the Block 1 Space Launch System with an uncrewed Orion capsule on a multi-week mission around the Moon and back to Earth.
The halfway milestone was reached July 18. Now that the survey of the southern sky is complete, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has turned its cameras to the north.
