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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. Sharon and Marc recently announced they will be returning to space with Blue Origin on a future flight.
Founded in 2015, SpaceKids Global’s mission is to bring the possibility of space to kids everywhere, by inspiring students to excel in STEAM+ Environment, ensuring girls are equally represented.
SpaceKids Global hosts a variety of annual challenges designed to inspire kids to pursue careers in the space industry. One of the recent SpaceKids programs is a national essay competition, Why I Want to go to Space. The student authors of the two winning essays were selected to experience a ZERO-G flight. In 2023, SpaceKids Global is sponsoring field trips to Kennedy Space Center for select fourth grade students from Orange County Title I schools.
Sharon shares her journey to space and encourages students through speaking engagements at schools, nonprofit youth organizations, science centers, universities, and space organizations. To date, Sharon has reached nearly 253,000 students globally with the goal of helping fill the 3.5 million STEM job vacancies that will need to be filled in the United States by 2023.
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, W. Va.
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