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.
With an more muscular annual budget, NASA could regain some of the urgency that marked the nation’s Apollo era, according to an Aerospace Industries Association assessment released just before President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress.
Space-debris mitigation is getting more attention as companies prepare to launch thousands of new smallsats into low Earth orbit, where the environment is already filling up with dangerous space junk.
Disruptions from a tornado that struck NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on Feb. 7 have likely slowed production of the propellant tanks for the core stage of the inaugural Space Launch System rocket by a couple of months.
