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.
An engineering mockup of NASA’s Orion crew exploration capsule settled intact onto the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwest Arizona Aug. 26, marking a successful conclusion to a key high-altitude drop test of the spacecraft’s parachute recovery system.
NanoRacks plans to open commercial research access to the outside of the International Space Station by the spring of 2016 following the arrival of the company’s External Payload Platform earlier this week aboard the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s HTV-5 resupply capsule.
