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.

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Articles

By Mark Carreau
The National Space Foundation’s (NSF) Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project has unveiled the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques conducted a 6 1/2-hr. spacewalk outside the ISS on April 8.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe successfully released a plastic explosive charge onto the boulder-strewn surface of its target asteroid Ryugu late April 4.
Defense and Space