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.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully placed the Telestar 18 Vantage/APSTAR 5C comm sat in a geostationary transfer orbit Sept. 10 after launch from Cape Canaveral.
NASA should develop an advanced space observatory capable of directly observing Earth-like extrasolar planets to seek evidence for life on a cosmic scale, a new study says.
