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.
White House science advisor John Holdren pledged support for NASA’s human Mars exploration ambitions as part of a Washington homecoming delegation that greeted U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly here early March 3.
Space marathoners Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko said March 2 they felt glad to be back on Earth after 340 days aboard the International Space Station.
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft descended onto the subfreezing plains of Central Kazakhstan late March 1, delivering NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko safely to Earth after their 340-day mission to the International Space Station.
