Born in West Point and raised in Novato, Yvonne earned a doctor of medicine degree from University of Washington and worked as a physician for more than a decade. She spent the following decade in the US Air Force, reaching the rank of Colonel before she retired. During her years in the USAF, she served as a liaison for the Space Shuttle mission STS-30 and as a doctor at NASA's Occupational Health Clinic for two years. Having cleared more than a few impressive hurdles, she was then selected for astronaut training by NASA in 1996.
Dr. Cagle was a member of the Astronaut Class of 1996 and is currently assigned to Johnson Space Center's Space and Life Science Directorate. And in one of the more unusual Hollywood cameos, Dr. Cagle brought Katherine Johnson onto the stage at the 2017 Academy Awards.
