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 Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Corp. have agreed to accelerate cooperative efforts to develop a pressurized, fuel-cell-powered lunar rover for human explorers.
The Trump administration’s $21 billion, 2020 NASA budget proposal seeks to achieve a 2028 return to the lunar surface with astronauts while working with global partners to reach Mars and other deep-space destinations.
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has paused efforts to pry into the planet’s subsurface with the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) for about two weeks.
