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.
The second of three 6-to-7-hr. spacewalks intended to extend power, data and heater cables to the first of the docking ports for use by Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s crewed Dragon is scheduled to get underway early Feb. 25.
The postponement came after the U.S.-led Mission Management Team on Feb. 19 cleared the use of spacesuits with air and cooling water circulation components similar to those that have displayed recent problems.
NASA is evaluating a new spacesuit issue as it prepares to embark on a series of seven spacewalks this year that are intended to prepare docking ports aboard the six-person orbiting science laboratory for the arrival of the first U.S. commercial crew vehicles by late 2017.
