Steven Ray Hall (born July 6, 1959 in West Palm Beach, Florida) is the Chair of the Faculty and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hall was the lead instructor for the Unified Engineering course freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare.
Living in Florida at the height of the space race, he developed an interest in aircraft and rockets early in life.
He greatly enjoys living with the Simmons Hall community of students and scholars, which he describes as “warm, welcoming, and vibrant.” His daughter Caitlin lives with him at Simmons Hall and is a graduate student at Emerson College.
He is a certificated pilot, and proud owner of a Cessna Cutlass RG,[5] which he flies on weekends and vacations.