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 Juno mission spacecraft, on course to maneuver into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, has become the most distant solar-powered spacecraft ever, according to an update from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are planning a Jan. 15 spacewalk to restore the outpost’s solar power generation to full capacity and further efforts to establish a pair of docking ports for use by future U.S. commercial astronaut transportation providers Boeing and SpaceX.
NASA researchers report genetic and nutritional links to the vision changes experienced by astronauts assigned to live and work aboard the International Space Station.
