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.
Osiris-Rex, NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission, maneuvered into orbit around the 1,640-ft.-wide near Earth object Bennu on New Year’s Eve.
Parts of the U.S. government will remain closed into the new year, including NASA, but that will not keep the agency’s New Horizons probe from racing past the most distant Solar System object ever early Jan. 1.
