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" created in 1996 and held to be connected through apostolic succession to the Old Catholic Churches. Bowman retired as archbishop in June 2006. *Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Bowman).*