.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not picture that people time she will operate at NASA. Today, she functions as technical venture planner at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, sustaining its own Flying Research Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's posture requires her to travel on behalf of social engagement events and also just recently she sustained NASA's presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the organization's booth included Spanish-language STEM materials.One thing, or, an individual, made this celebration specifically distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her kid, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently providing in the United States Marine Corps and also is based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a movement of blessing, they were both working the same celebration for their respective employers. Surviving contrary sides of the country, they hadn't observed one another in person for virtually a year. With unpleasant surprise as well as happiness, they embraced.Growing in a Puerto Rican home, conversations concerning primary market values focused on family members, Martinez-Cruz pointed out. He remembered finding his mama work at NASA as well as experiencing encouraged by her job principles. That amount of dedication managed in the family members." Israel and I would certainly carpool," she said. "He will fall me off at Langley and after that he will go on his method to his plane mechanic university.".Martinez-Cruz acts as a sky visitor traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz found out about however had actually never ever observed face to face." He's explained to me what his task involves yet taking a trip of his job internet site provides me an entire brand new understanding," she claimed after a trip of the air traffic control tower.NASA is actually happy to commemorate National Hispanic Culture Month, the annual observance recognizing the broad and wealthy past histories, cultures, and payments of the Hispanic and Latino neighborhood. In the words of NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Forward and upward!".