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.
NASA and German space agency DLR will jointly sponsor six space analog research efforts selected to assess the effects of the deep space environment on astronaut cognition, sleep and team functioning during missions lasting months to years.
A multi-national science team has made the first-ever orbital detection of magnetic reconnection, the previously theorized explosive process that convert stored magnetic energy from the Sun and Earth into kinetic energy and heat.
U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly urged graduates to find the courage to risk failure at times in their career pursuits and look out for their home planet in a weekend commencement address at the University of Houston.
