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.
Enigmatic Ceres, the largest main belt asteroid that was long ago robbed of full planet status by Jupiter’s powerful gravitational forces, is giving up its secrets to a grateful NASA Dawn mission team more than two centuries after its discovery.
Perhaps in a different era, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft may have spotted liquid nitrogen flowing on distant Pluto, a distinctive planetary realm so far from the Sun that temperatures now measure minus 400 F, according to modeling of the latest data transmissions.
Portions of the information technology and physical infrastructure of NASA’s Near Earth Network, part of the agency’s far-reaching Space Communications and Navigation Program, face security risks, says an audit by Paul K. Martin, the agency’s inspector general.
