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.
NASA tagged 13 U.S. companies on July 30 to partner on seven broad technology fronts needed to advance the agency’s future deep space exploration goals, including a return to the lunar surface with human explorers in 2024.
Exposure to solar and galactic cosmic radiation could impair the brain function of human explorers during long-term missions to the Moon, Mars and other deep-space destinations.
The newly arrived crew supplies, research gear supporting more than 250 science and technology investigations and station hardware includes the International Docking Adapter-3, which was stowed in the Dragon capsule’s unpressurized trunk.
