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.
The nonprofit Space Center Houston and NASA’s Johnson Space Center have unveiled a Facilities Master Plan to help hasten a global and commercial rush to take part in the agency’s blueprint to establish a permanent human presence at the Moon in preparation for human expeditions to Mars.
Since its launch, TESS is credited with the discovery of more than 266 extrasolar planets and thousands of additional candidates that are currently under assessment for verification.
After a two-day weather delay, NASA’s quartet of Crew-4 astronauts departed the International Space Station aboard their Freedom SpaceX Dragon capsule on Oct. 14 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, ending a 170-day mission to the orbital science laboratory.
