.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not picture that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she works as technological job coordinator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, assisting its own Flight Study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's posture needs her to journey in support of public engagement activities and recently she assisted NASA's existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the organization's display included Spanish-language stalk materials.Something, or, a person, created this occasion especially special for Cruz-Diaz: Her child, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently offering in the USA Marine Corps and also is pointed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually both working the same event for their particular companies. Residing on opposite sides of the nation, they hadn't viewed one another in person for virtually a year. With unpleasant surprise as well as joy, they hugged.Growing up in a Puerto Rican household, chats regarding center market values revolved around loved ones, Martinez-Cruz claimed. He remembered finding his mother work at NASA as well as feeling motivated through her work values. That amount of dedication operated in the loved ones." Israel as well as I will carpool," she claimed. "He will lose me off at Langley and afterwards he will happen his way to his plane mechanic university.".Martinez-Cruz serves as an air web traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz learnt about however had never ever observed in person." He is actually explained to me what his work includes yet taking a scenic tour of his job website gives me an entire brand-new understanding," she pointed out after a scenic tour of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is actually happy to commemorate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the yearly celebration honoring the vast and wealthy pasts, cultures, and also contributions of the Hispanic and also Latino neighborhood. In words of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Onward and also up!".