.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not envision that a person day she will operate at NASA. Today, she acts as specialized project organizer at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, sustaining its own Aviation Research Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement requires her to take a trip in support of public interaction events and also just recently she assisted NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the firm's cubicle included Spanish-language STEM materials.One thing, or, a person, created this occasion specifically one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually presently providing in the USA Marine Corps as well as is posted at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a movement of blessing, they were each working the same celebration for their respective employers. Surviving on opposite edges of the nation, they hadn't found one another face to face for nearly a year. Along with unpleasant surprise as well as joy, they embraced.Growing up in a Puerto Rican household, chats about core values hinged on family members, Martinez-Cruz said. He recollected seeing his mommy operate at NASA and feeling encouraged by her job principles. That amount of devotion operated in the loved ones." Israel as well as I would certainly carpool," she mentioned. "He will lose me off at Langley and then he would go on his technique to his aircraft mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz serves as an air traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz found out about but had never ever observed in person." He's explained to me what his task requires but taking a trip of his job web site offers me an entire brand-new understanding," she said after a tour of the air traffic control service tower.NASA is proud to celebrate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the annual observance honoring the large and also abundant backgrounds, cultures, and also contributions of the Hispanic as well as Latino area. In words of NASA Administrator Costs Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Onward and upwards!".