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.
New NASA science projects packed away for launching to the International Space Station late this month will attempt to further the agency’s deep space exploration ambitions.
Space marathoner Scott Kelly will retire from NASA on April 1, one month after setting two U.S. spaceflight records aboard the International Space Station and 20 years after his selection to the agency’s astronaut corps.
The National Aeronautic Association has selected the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory team responsible for the Dawn mission to the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres as the recipient of the 2015 Collier Trophy.
