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 International Space Station has an ambitious schedule of research and reconfiguration ahead as it soon becomes home to its first two crewmembers prepared to spend a year aboard the six-person orbiting science laboratory.
U.S. and European crewmembers aboard the International Space Station retreated to the six-person orbiting lab’s Russian segment early Jan. 14 in response to an alarm that signaled a possible internal leak of toxic ammonia coolant from the NASA-monitored thermal control system.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), an arm of the congressionally chartered National Academies, has found knowledge gaps on seven fronts in NASA’s evolving efforts to define and overcome the health risks confronting astronauts assigned to future long-duration and exploration missions.
