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’s Johnson Space Center has awarded the Raytheon Co. a potential $122.8 million, four-year contract extension for the support of agency spaceflight training and spacecraft mockup facilities.
The berthing of the fifth cargo mission of the year is expected to sustain six-person operations aboard the orbiting science laboratory late into 2015, while U.S. commercial resuppliers Orbital ATK and SpaceX continue their recoveries from recent launch failures.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program seeks proposals from industry, academia and nonprofit research organizations for environmental evaluations of candidate landing sites for the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission.
