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.
HOUSTON – NASA faces a steep rise in the cost of supporting the International Space Station (ISS), according to a cautionary audit from the agency’s inspector general. It is a trend that threatens to take a prolonged financial toll if a U.S.-backed, four-year extension of operations through 2024 wins support from the orbiting lab’s major partners.
The International Space Station (ISS) crew took shelter in their docked Soyuz crew transport vehicle early July 16 after a fragment from a former Russian weather satellite threatened to pass close before flight controllers here and in Moscow could arrange an avoidance maneuver.
Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit trying to establish a growing human settlement on the Red Planet by the late 2020s, plans to use team challenge, isolation and rigorous interview strategies to cull its current international roster of 50 men and 50 women down to 24 prospective colonists.
