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.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER/JOHNSON SPACE CENTER — NASA’s new Orion crew capsule flew its first test in space with clocklike precision Friday, using two unmanned orbits that took it deeper into space than any human spacecraft has gone since Apollo 17 before a bull’s-eye splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
HOUSTON – A multinational research team reports evidence of organic material of biological origin within the crevices of a fragment from Tissint, a more than 26-lb. meteorite of Martian origin that was witnessed falling into Morocco on July 18, 2011 and recovered just three months later. The analysis by French, Chinese, German and Japanese researchers raises anew the debate over whether Mars, now cold, dry and with a thin atmosphere rich in CO2, was once suitable for microbial life.
