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.
HOUSTON – The first of about 20 planned small plastic parts, or coupons, emerged last week from Made in Space Inc., the 3-D printer delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) in September. The printer served as a prototype for a space additive manufacturing capability that may one day become an essential part of NASA’s tool kit for human deep space exploration.
HOUSTON — NASA is borrowing a page from its shuttle past as the agency works largely in-house at Johnson Space Center to develop a multipurpose spacesuit for the astronauts assigned to its early piloted Orion missions. The Modified Advanced Crew Escape Suit (MACES) is based on the distinctive orange pressure suits donned by shuttle astronauts for launches and landings after the fatal 1986 Challenger accident.
HOUSTON – Humans will be noticeably absent from the NASA/Lockheed Martin Exploration Flight Test-1 Orion capsule as it embarks on its first spaceflight, a two-orbit test mission that will include a searing descent through the Earth’s atmosphere. But the agency intends to gather data from within the spacecraft critical to the welfare of future astronauts.
