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 Osiris-Rex travels closer towards Bennu, the spacecraft’s suite of scientific instruments will gather imagery to generate global maps, contributing to an ongoing evaluation of where best to touch down briefly to gather a sample of soil and rock.
NASA’s Ames Research Center predicts the next solar cycle, beginning in 2020 and reaching its max point in 2025, will be the weakest in the last 200 years.
House lawmakers pressed without success during a June 11 hearing for answers from NASA as to how much the White House’s plans to accelerate a human lunar landing from 2028 to 2024 will cost.
