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’s exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope on April 22 resumed its role in a novel gravitational microlensing campaign to seek out extrasolar planets in the outermost orbits of their host stars and Jupiter-sized planets called free floaters that drift between the stars.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is seeking design proposals from U.S. industry for an advanced Mars Orbiter concept to support a range of future exploration activities, including a robotic sample return mission and human landing site selection.
U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly flashed his wit and shared his insights into the challenges of long-duration human spaceflight when he and his International Space Station crew mates were honored April 20.
