16 Facts About Yvonne Cagle

Yvonne Darlene Cagle was born on April 24,1959 and is an American physician, professor, retired US Air Force Colonel, and NASA astronaut.

Yvonne Cagle is one of six African American woman astronauts.

Yvonne Cagle received her bachelor's degree in biochemistry from San Francisco State University in 1981, and a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Washington in 1985.

Yvonne Cagle completed a transitional internship at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California in 1985 and received a certificate in Aerospace Medicine from the School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, in 1988.

Yvonne Cagle then went on to complete a residency in family practice at Ghent FP at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1992 and received certification as a senior aviation medical examiner from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1995.

In May 1989 as a commissioned medical officer assigned to the 48th Tactical Hospital, United Kingdom, Yvonne Cagle served as Air Force Medical Liaison Officer for STS-30 mission to test the Magellan spacecraft, before she became a NASA astronaut.

Yvonne Cagle worked as medical doctor at NASA's Occupational Health Clinic from 1994 to 1996.

Yvonne Cagle was a member of the Astronaut Class of 1996.

In 2014, Yvonne Cagle was a visiting professor to Fordham University where she participated in interdisciplinary research in health, environment and human performance.

Yvonne Cagle never flew on a space mission, and by June 2017 was deemed a NASA Management Astronaut, which means that she is employed at NASA but is no longer eligible for spaceflight assignments; she still appears on the active list of NASA Management Astronauts as of January 2021, assigned to NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

Yvonne Cagle was on the faculty of Singularity University and still serves as their NASA liaison for exploration and space development.

Dr Yvonne Cagle is an honorary member of the Danish Astronautical Society.

Yvonne Cagle is the chief scientist for the Level II Program Office of NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research program, an advisor for NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, and Stanford University's lead astronaut science liaison and strategic relationships manager to technology companies, including Google.

Yvonne Cagle served as the VP for space exploration and space exponential technologies at Singularity University and acted as a visiting professor at Fordham University.

Yvonne Cagle holds adjunct professorships with Stanford University, UC Davis, and UTMB, Galveston.

Yvonne Cagle was a TEDx speaker in 2018 on the subject of "Poetry of space on Earth".