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.
Two NASA astronauts installed a sixth and final planned Roll Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the long solar power truss of the ISS during a June 15 spacewalk.
The research findings back the premise that most, if not all, Earth water originated through asteroid collisions during the Solar System’s planet-forming era.
NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg installed a fifth ISS Roll Out Solar Array on the International Space Station’s lengthy solar power truss.
