.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't picture that a person day she will operate at NASA. Today, she acts as specialized venture coordinator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, sustaining its Flight Investigation Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's posture requires her to journey on behalf of social interaction activities as well as lately she assisted NASA's existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the agency's booth included Spanish-language stalk components.Something, or rather, a person, made this celebration especially one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her kid, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently offering in the USA Marine Corps and is posted at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a movement of luck, they were each operating the exact same celebration for their particular employers. Surviving on opposite edges of the country, they hadn't seen one another in person for virtually a year. With unpleasant surprise as well as happiness, they embraced.Growing in a Puerto Rican house, talks concerning core worths hinged on household, Martinez-Cruz said. He recollected finding his mother work at NASA and really feeling encouraged by her work ethic. That degree of commitment managed in the family members." Israel and also I will carpool," she mentioned. "He would certainly drop me off at Langley and then he would take place his way to his airplane mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz functions as a sky website traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz learnt about however had actually never ever found in person." He is actually described to me what his work requires yet taking a trip of his task website gives me a whole brand new understanding," she pointed out after an excursion of the air traffic control service tower.NASA is actually happy to commemorate National Hispanic Culture Month, the yearly celebration honoring the large and abundant pasts, cultures, as well as contributions of the Hispanic as well as Latino community. In words of NASA Manager Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Forward and also upward!".