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 Earth is randomly struck by uncharted but potentially destructive asteroids with perhaps three to 10 times the frequency previously estimated, according to a visual Earth Day presentation unveiled by the nonprofit B612 Foundation that features records of 26 high-altitude detonations triggered by impacts over the last dozen years.
HOUSTON — SpaceX’s third commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station promises to keep ground-based engineers and scientists very busy, as astronauts opened the Dragon hatch, entered the cargo capsule and began to unpack its contents on April 21.
