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.
Deployments of 16 CubeSats from the Japanese segment of the International Space Station are planned through July 16, following the initial launchings of six Planet Labs small satellites July 13-14.
“That is actually one of the parts we enjoy most: actually getting out there and working with the engineers, working with the people that are making it happen," says Bob Behnken, who handed off his NASA chief astronaut duties last week to become one of NASA’s commercial crew cadre.
Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries’ Spaceflight Networks is forging partnerships with four satellite data and spacecraft radio providers to expand the global reach of its young low latency data network specializing in the communications requirements of the surging small satellite sector.
