Sharon Hagle

Astronaut, Sharon Hagle is CEO and Founder of SpaceKids Global. Sharon completed her flight on Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-20 launched on March 31, 2022 as a member of Crew 4. Joining Sharon on the flight was her husband Marc Hagle, making them the first married couple to fly to space on a commercial vehicle. Other crew members are Marty Allen CEO Party America, Jim Kitchen Explorer and University of North Carolina professor, Dr. George Nield, President of Commercial Space Technologies at the FAA and former manager of the Flight Integration Office for NASA's space shuttle and Gary Lai, Sr. Director Program Management at Blue Origin

Sharon founded SpaceKids Global in March of 2015 with the mission of bringing the possibility of space to kids everywhere. Having signed up to fly with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic in 2007, she wants students to get excited about their futures in space exploration and technology. She is sharing her journey to space and showing kids that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

Sharon completed her astronaut training at; Zero Gravity training-Kennedy Space Center, the centrifuge training at NASTAR in Philadelphia (where NASA trains their Astronauts) and the Russian Cosmonaut Space Training Program in Star City, Russia. Her goal is to launch with all three private companies; Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic.

Prior to launching SpaceKids Global, Sharon had a decades-long career in commercial real estate as a site selector for national retail tenants in the southeastern United States. Sharon attended Morris Harvey College (now called The University of Charleston) in Charleston, West Virginia.