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 NASA Orion capsule assigned to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, reached Ohio by air transport from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 24.
Two spacewalking astronauts teamed for the second of four planned spacewalks outside the ISS on Nov. 22 to advance an upgrade of the thermal control system on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
A NASA strategy to partner with the U.S. commercial sector to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) could enrich a growing global space economy if the agency and its international partners can stay the course to the Moon and Mars, its top strategist told SpaceCom 2019 on Nov 20.
