Yvonne Cagle
Dr. Yvonne Cagle is a NASA astronaut and physician. In 2008, she retired as a Colonel in the USAF where she served as a Senior Flight Surgeon prior to her selection to the NASA Astronaut Corp in 1996. In 2005, Dr. Cagle was assigned to the NASA/ARC as the lead ARC Astronaut Science Liaison and Strategic Relationships Manager for Google and other Silicon Valley Partnerships. Cagle’s work is preserving historic NASA space legacy data, while simultaneously galvanizing NASA’s initiatives in global mapping, sustainable energies, green initiatives, and disaster preparedness. She is advisor for the Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR). Previously, she served as the NASA liaison and VP for space exploration and space exponential technologies with Singularity University. She was a Brussels TEDx Speaker for 2012. Historically holding adjunct professorships with Stanford University, and University of California Davis, Dr. Cagle, is a visiting professor at Fordham University.