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.
Astronauts on deep-space missions risk significant damage to their central nervous systems from galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), which could diminish their abilities to deal with mission-critical events, according to a new study from NASA’s Human Research Program.
Russia’s unsuccessful Progress 59 International Space Station resupply mission spacecraft is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere within two weeks, according to April 30 NASA estimates.
NASA’s out-of-fuel Messenger mission spacecraft crashed into the cratered far-side terrain of the planet Mercury late April 30, as predicted, carving a new depression estimated at 50 ft. in length in a region also marked by past lava flows.
