.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not picture that a person day she would work at NASA. Today, she functions as technical task coordinator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, sustaining its Aviation Research Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's position demands her to take a trip on behalf of social involvement celebrations as well as lately she supported NASA's presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the agency's display included Spanish-language stalk products.Something, or rather, somebody, made this event especially distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her child, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently offering in the USA Marine Corps and is actually posted at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually both operating the very same occasion for their particular companies. Living on contrary edges of the country, they hadn't seen one another face to face for nearly a year. Along with unpleasant surprise and also happiness, they embraced.Maturing in a Puerto Rican house, talks about core values revolved around family members, Martinez-Cruz said. He recalled viewing his mother operate at NASA and really feeling motivated by her job values. That level of dedication ran in the family." Israel and I will carpool," she said. "He would certainly fall me off at Langley and after that he would certainly take place his way to his airplane mechanic institution.".Martinez-Cruz acts as an air website traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz knew about yet had never ever viewed in person." He's revealed to me what his task involves but taking a trip of his work internet site gives me a whole new understanding," she claimed after a trip of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is happy to commemorate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the annual celebration recognizing the wide and also rich past histories, societies, as well as payments of the Hispanic and Latino community. In the words of NASA Supervisor Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward and upward!".