In 1967, following the deaths of three astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA appointed him director of the Office of Manned Space Flight Safety for the Apollo Program.
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From July 1970 to April 1971, he was director of operations for the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing, Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and flew RF-4Cs.
With Rev. Jen Miller, he is the co-creator of the public access series Electra Elf (2004-), featuring Miller, Faceboy, Andrew J. Lederer and a "who's who" of New York downtown artists and performers.
He attended Saint Joseph's College of Philadelphia (now Saint Joseph's University) from 1960 to 1965, the Community College of Philadelphia from 1967 to 1969 and Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, in 1972.
The album title makes reference to the bestselling 1958 expose The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer.
As a side project, with Andrew J. Lederer and Michael Rosenberg (Jackie Diamond), Ryan briefly performed in the '20s-style music and comedy trio, The Merry Metronomes. He and Lederer also appeared from time to time as a duo, usually under the name The Natty Nabobs. He and Nick Santa Maria also perform occasionally as a vaudeville-era comedy team, Biffle & Shooster (Ryan plays the latter), and in 2013 they made their first film, a faux 1930s comedy short titled It's A Frame-Up.