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.
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out the first of three planned spacewalks Nov. 17 to continue upgrades to the International Space Station’s Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module,.
SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System is to support the second and first NASA Artemis-era missions to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon under a $1.15 billion contract modification.
NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio resumed the agency’s efforts to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power-generation system, with a 7-hr. spacewalk.
