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 final tally of exoplanet candidates and confirmations logged during the four-year primary mission of NASA’s Kepler space telescope promises to furnish scientists with data to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
By leveraging advances in telescope optics and computing, the B612 Foundation’s new Asteroid Institute (AI) expects to dramatically increase the discovery of small asteroids that still pose a threat to Earth.
NASA’s Orion program will spend several weeks assessing performance and engineering data from Orbital ATK’s Utah desert test firing on June 15 of the Launch Abort System motor.
