G. Harry Stine

Stine wrote non-fiction under his own name, and published sf novels and stories under the pseudonym Lee Correy. His science fact articles appeared frequently in Astounding/Analog.

Stine worked at the White Sands missile range in the fifties, the dawn of the space age. Troubled by the epidemic of injuries, death, and maiming from fire and explosions suffered by enthusiastic kids with home-made rockets (many of them constructed with erroneous guidance from school science and chemistry teachers), in 1957 he wrote a set of rules for safe model rocketry that was published in Mechanix Illustrated. This set of rules led to model rocketry as a safe and educational hobby in which millions of people have participated and which continues today. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has been a bible for the hobby since the first edition appeared.