Mark Carreau

Space Correspondent

Houston, TX

Summary

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.

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Articles

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON — NASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. have set a late Oct. 27 liftoff of the Dulles, Virginia-based company’s third resupply mission to the six

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON — Cosmonauts Maxim Suraev and Alexander Samokutyaev discarded unneeded hardware from outside the International Space Station’s Russian segment

By Mark Carreau
HOUSTON— By March 2015, startup Waypoint 2 Space Inc. intends to begin training commercial space travelers for flight. The company will follow a