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 global space economy climbed to $330 billion in 2014, rising 9% over the previous 12 months and nearly doubling over the past decade, according to the latest findings compiled by the nonprofit Space Foundation.
Russia’s Progress 60 resupply vehicle delivered supplies to ISS crew, along with a sense of relief to space handlers worldwide in the aftermath of a spate of resupply mission launch failures.
The strategy would extract water and oxygen from the Red Planet’s soil and atmosphere, starting years before the first pioneers migrate and land near pre-established habitat and cargo modules.
