.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't think of that people day she will operate at NASA. Today, she serves as technical task coordinator at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, assisting its own Flight Investigation Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's position requires her to travel in support of public engagement events as well as lately she sustained NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the organization's display featured Spanish-language STEM products.One thing, or rather, someone, made this occasion specifically unique for Cruz-Diaz: Her boy, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually presently providing in the USA Marine Corps as well as is posted at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually both operating the very same event for their corresponding companies. Residing on opposite edges of the country, they had not seen each other personally for almost a year. Along with surprise and joy, they embraced.Growing up in a Puerto Rican family, talks regarding primary values hinged on family, Martinez-Cruz said. He recollected observing his mommy operate at NASA and feeling motivated by her job ethic. That degree of dedication ran in the family." Israel and I would certainly carpool," she mentioned. "He would certainly lose me off at Langley and afterwards he would go on his means to his airplane mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz functions as an air web traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz learnt about however had certainly never found personally." He's revealed to me what his work involves yet taking a tour of his job web site provides me a whole brand-new understanding," she stated after a trip of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is glad to commemorate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the annual celebration recognizing the wide as well as abundant pasts, lifestyles, as well as payments of the Hispanic and also Latino area. In words of NASA Administrator Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward and also upward!".