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 scientists are preparing advanced plant growth hardware for delivery to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station later this month as part of a modest greenhouse.
With a small but significant maneuver earlier this week, NASA’s Maven Mars orbiter avoided a potential collision with Phobos, the larger of the Red Planet’s two moons.
With an more muscular annual budget, NASA could regain some of the urgency that marked the nation’s Apollo era, according to an Aerospace Industries Association assessment released just before President Donald Trump’s first address to Congress.
