{"id":2103,"date":"2014-12-16T13:43:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2014-12-16T13:48:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:48:24","slug":"stein-richard-james-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2103","title":{"rendered":"STEIN, RICHARD JAMES, 1925-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineer. Born&#8211; Jan. 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Charles Hanon and Katherine (Rivers) Stein. Married&#8211; Betty Jean Mathews in 1955. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; 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&#8211; Veterans of Foreign Wars, Masque and Gavel, Euclidean Society, and American Society of Professional Engineers. Died January 29, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s Distinguished; obituary, <em>Huntsville Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Space Carrier Vehicles; Design, Development and Testing of Launching Rockets. New York; Academic Press, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Engineer. Born&#8211; Jan. 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Charles Hanon and Katherine (Rivers) Stein. Married&#8211; Betty Jean Mathews in 1955. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}