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 — Cooperation between the U.S. and Russia in oversight of the International Space Station (ISS) is unfolding without interference from external tensions over the Ukraine, according to NASA’s Mike Suffredini, the ISS program manager. Station personnel are preparing for an urgent American spacewalk repair and looming commercial re-supply mission, as well as the delayed validation of software upgrades to a Russian cargo capsule.
HOUSTON — Kepler-186f, a recent discovery from NASA’s five-year-old Kepler mission, a rocky world 500 light years away, is the first validated, Earth-sized planet detected within the habitable zone of a star beyond the Solar System, an international team of astronomers announced April 17.
HOUSTON — NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson will be prepared for a 2-3 hr. spacewalk to replace a failed backup computer control box outside the International Space Station (ISS) as soon as April 20, ISS mission managers announced April 16.
