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.
Hurricane Matthew strengthened to a “monster” Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph on Oct. 6 as it approached Florida’s Space Coast, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
NASA will evaluate an assortment of secondary science and technically themed payload proposals as part of Exploration Mission-2, the first crewed test flight of the Space Launch System exploration rocket and Orion crew capsule.
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and adjacent Patrick AFB, home to Cape Canaveral, released all but nonessential personnel on Oct. 5 as Hurricane Matthew churned through the Caribbean.
