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.
Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has assured the U.S. that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station as planned aboard the Soyuz MS-19 that is set to land in Kazakhstan on March 30.
NASA has reached an “inflection point” as it looks to transition its human-spaceflight focus from low-Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, according to the chair of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
As it plans its Artemis lunar-exploration program, NASA is engaging the planetary-science community in ways not possible during the Apollo 11-17 missions that landed a dozen men trained primarily as test pilots on the lunar surface to gather samples for researchers on Earth.
