.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz failed to picture that a person day she will operate at NASA. Today, she functions as technological venture planner at NASA's Langley in Virginia, supporting its own Flight Study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's position needs her to travel on behalf of public involvement occasions and lately she assisted NASA's existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the organization's cubicle featured Spanish-language STEM products.One thing, or, a person, created this occasion particularly distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her child, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually presently serving in the United States Marine Corps as well as is pointed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of blessing, they were actually both working the very same activity for their respective companies. Living on opposite sides of the nation, they hadn't found each other in person for nearly a year. With unpleasant surprise and also delight, they hugged.Growing in a Puerto Rican family, discussions regarding core values hinged on household, Martinez-Cruz claimed. He remembered finding his mom work at NASA and experiencing encouraged by her work values. That amount of devotion managed in the loved ones." Israel and I would carpool," she claimed. "He would certainly fall me off at Langley and afterwards he would certainly happen his technique to his airplane mechanic school.".Martinez-Cruz acts as a sky website traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz found out about yet had actually never ever observed personally." He is actually described to me what his job necessitates but taking an excursion of his task internet site provides me a whole brand-new understanding," she claimed after an excursion of the air traffic control service tower.NASA is honored to celebrate National Hispanic Culture Month, the annual celebration honoring the large and also rich pasts, societies, as well as additions of the Hispanic as well as Latino area. In the words of NASA Administrator Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward and up!".