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.
Russia’s wayward Progress 59 International Space Station resupply mission spacecraft appears destined for an uncontrolled overnight re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA ground control teams working with a mock satellite bus positioned outside the International Space Station have completed a five-day round of hardware staging and technology demonstrations that one day could robotically refurbish satellites as distant as geosynchronous orbit.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is ratcheting up its search for and characterization of potential ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s south pole, following a pair of altitude-lowering maneuvers.
