Biography:

Engineer. Born– Jan. 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Charles Hanon and Katherine (Rivers) Stein. Married– Betty Jean Mathews in 1955. Children– Three. Education– attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute, State University of Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Metallurgist with Tenn. Coal, Iron and Railroad Co., 1950-1951; structural engineer with Ingalls Iron Works, 1951-1954; propulsion engineer with U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Laboratories, 1954-1959; joined NASA in 1959 as staff engineer to director of program management; retired from NASA, 1987. Member– Veterans of Foreign Wars, Masque and Gavel, Euclidean Society, and American Society of Professional Engineers. Died January 29, 2004.

Source:

Alabama’s Distinguished; obituary, Huntsville Times.

Joint_Publication(s):

Space Carrier Vehicles; Design, Development and Testing of Launching Rockets. New York; Academic Press, 1963.