.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't visualize that a person day she would work at NASA. Today, she serves as technological project coordinator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, sustaining its own Air transportation Research study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's setting needs her to journey in support of public involvement events and also just recently she assisted NASA's presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the firm's cubicle included Spanish-language stalk materials.One thing, or rather, an individual, created this occasion specifically one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her kid, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually currently providing in the United States Marine Corps and also is based at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually each functioning the exact same activity for their corresponding employers. Surviving on opposite edges of the nation, they hadn't observed each other personally for virtually a year. Along with shock and also delight, they embraced.Maturing in a Puerto Rican family, conversations concerning core market values revolved around family members, Martinez-Cruz said. He remembered seeing his mama operate at NASA as well as really feeling influenced through her work values. That level of devotion ran in the loved ones." Israel as well as I would carpool," she stated. "He would certainly lose me off at Langley and afterwards he would certainly take place his means to his plane mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz serves as an air traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz understood about however had actually never found personally." He's clarified to me what his task necessitates but taking a scenic tour of his work web site offers me an entire new understanding," she stated after a trip of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is pleased to celebrate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the yearly observance honoring the vast and also rich pasts, lifestyles, and additions of the Hispanic as well as Latino area. In words of NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Forward and also upward!".