Robert M. Bowman

Robert M. Bowman (September 19, 1934 – August 22, 2013) was a former director of advanced space programs development for the U.S. Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force lieutenant colonel with 101 combat missions. He received a Ph.D. in aeronautics and nuclear engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Bowman, the father of theologian [Robert M. Bowman, Jr.](https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2792204A/Robert_M._Bowman_Jr.), was the founding archbishop of the United Catholic Church, an "independent Catholic fellowship" …