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.
Cameras aboard the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft are tracking a slow but impressive transition from fall to winter at the south pole of the moon Titan.
GJ 1132b, the closest Earth-sized exoplanet discovery yet, may prove greatly beneficial in the difficult search for evidence of life beyond the solar system.
A small range of medications maintained their effectiveness after months on the International Space Station and sometimes well beyond their expiration dates.
