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.
SpaceX’s sixth Dragon commercial resupply mission spacecraft climbed to orbit April 14, initiating a three-day trip to the six-person International Space Station (ISS) with a 4,300-lb. cargo, following a 24-hr. weather delay.
SpaceX and NASA planned a second attempt to launch the sixth Falcon9/Dragon commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station on April 14, a 24-hr. delay, after a lightning threat late in the first countdown on April 13 forced a postponement.
Convention suggests the Moon formed in the late planet-forming stages of the 4.6-billion-year-old Solar System, when a Mars-sized impactor struck the Earth—the final “giant impact” in an accretion process involving primarily small protoplanets.
