- After retiring from NASA and the United States Air Force in 1988 he joined Booz Allen Hamilton working on their space programs.
- Received a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1970.
- Graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1955.
- First graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to travel in space.
- Member of the first graduating class of the United States Air Force Academy.
- Has a son and a daughter.
- Received a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy in 1969.
- Bobko joined NASA in 1969 with the agency's seventh group of astronauts. Unlike the classes that came before and after his selection, though, Bobko and his six fellow Group 7 members were transplants from another astronaut corps: the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program.
- He was the only NASA astronaut to fly on the first launch of two space shuttle orbiters,.
- Bobko previously served as president of the U.S. chapter of the Association of Space Explorers.
- He was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2011 and the Cradle of Aviation Museum's Long Island Air and Space Hall of Fame in 2018.
- For his service to the U.S. space program, Bobko was honored with the NASA Exceptional Service Medal and NASA Space Flight Medal, among other awards.
- In 2005, Bobko joined Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he served as program manager for NASA's Ames Research Center's Simulation Laboratories. He retired in 2014, although continued to consult.
- In 1988, Bobko retired from NASA and the Air Force to join the firm of Booz Allen Hamilton, in Houston, Texas. At Booz Allen he was a principal and managed efforts dealing with human space flight. His areas of emphasis were: high performance training simulation, hardware and software systems engineering, spacecraft checkout and testing, space station development and program integration.
- Bobko's final flight was as commander of STS-51-J, the second Space Shuttle Department of Defense mission, which launched from Kennedy Space Center on October 3, 1985. This mission carried classified payloads for the Department of Defense and was the second time that a Shuttle mission was used solely for Department of Defense activities.[7] This was the maiden voyage of Atlantis. After 98 hours of orbital operations, Atlantis landed on Edwards Air Force Base Lakebed Runway 23 on October 7, 1985. Bobko became the first person to fly on three different Space Shuttles.
- In 2000 he joined SPACEHUB where he was Vice President for Strategic Programs.
- He was the pilot of the Challenger Space Shuttle's maiden voyage on April 4, 1983, less than three years before it exploded while taking off on January 28, 1986.
- Grew up in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York until the age of 13 until his family moved to Long Island.
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