.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not imagine that day she will operate at NASA. Today, she functions as specialized job planner at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, sustaining its own Flight Research study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement requires her to take a trip on behalf of social engagement celebrations as well as lately she sustained NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the organization's booth featured Spanish-language STEM products.Something, or, someone, created this activity particularly special for Cruz-Diaz: Her boy, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently providing in the USA Marine Corps and is pointed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of blessing, they were actually each operating the exact same occasion for their particular employers. Surviving on contrary edges of the nation, they hadn't viewed each other personally for almost a year. With shock and joy, they embraced.Maturing in a Puerto Rican family, chats about center market values hinged on family members, Martinez-Cruz pointed out. He remembered observing his mother work at NASA and also really feeling influenced by her work principles. That degree of devotion operated in the family members." Israel and also I would carpool," she mentioned. "He would certainly fall me off at Langley and then he will go on his way to his aircraft mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz serves as a sky website traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz understood about but had actually never ever found face to face." He is actually explained to me what his project calls for yet taking an excursion of his project internet site gives me an entire brand new understanding," she mentioned after a scenic tour of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is actually pleased to celebrate National Hispanic Culture Month, the annual observance recognizing the wide and also abundant records, lifestyles, and also payments of the Hispanic and Latino community. In words of NASA Manager Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Onward as well as upwards!".