.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz failed to picture that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she acts as specialized venture coordinator at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, sustaining its Air transportation Research Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement needs her to travel on behalf of public engagement activities and also just recently she supported NASA's existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the agency's booth included Spanish-language STEM components.One thing, or rather, a person, made this occasion particularly distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually currently serving in the USA Marine Corps and also is posted at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually each functioning the very same activity for their corresponding employers. Residing on contrary sides of the country, they had not observed one another face to face for nearly a year. Along with shock as well as happiness, they hugged.Growing in a Puerto Rican family, chats about center values hinged on household, Martinez-Cruz mentioned. He remembered viewing his mother operate at NASA as well as feeling encouraged through her work principles. That amount of dedication operated in the loved ones." Israel as well as I will carpool," she claimed. "He would lose me off at Langley and then he would happen his method to his airplane mechanic school.".Martinez-Cruz acts as a sky visitor traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz understood about but had actually certainly never viewed face to face." He's detailed to me what his job requires but taking a scenic tour of his job internet site provides me a whole brand new understanding," she stated after an excursion of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is actually glad to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the annual celebration honoring the wide and rich past histories, cultures, and also payments of the Hispanic as well as Latino community. In words of NASA Administrator Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Forward and also upwards!".