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.
Two spacewalking cosmonauts marched through 11 tasks outside the International Space Station’s Russian segment on Aug. 10 while colleagues inside tested food grown in space for the first time.
Little by little spacecraft are becoming a little more "livable" with useful technologies and amenities that may help to bring future months-to-years long explorations of deep space destinations possible.
Kirk Shireman, an 11-year NASA International Space Station (ISS) executive and former ISS deputy program manager, will succeed the agency’s Mike Suffredini as manager of the six-person orbiting science laboratory.
