.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't visualize that one day she would operate at NASA. Today, she serves as technical job planner at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, assisting its own Flying Investigation Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's setting needs her to journey on behalf of public interaction occasions and lately she supported NASA's presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the company's cubicle featured Spanish-language stalk materials.Something, or rather, somebody, created this activity particularly distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her child, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently serving in the United States Marine Corps and also is posted at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were each working the exact same activity for their particular employers. Surviving opposite edges of the nation, they hadn't viewed one another face to face for virtually a year. With unpleasant surprise and pleasure, they embraced.Maturing in a Puerto Rican household, conversations regarding center market values hinged on family members, Martinez-Cruz mentioned. He recalled seeing his mama operate at NASA and also really feeling motivated by her job principles. That amount of dedication ran in the household." Israel and I would certainly carpool," she stated. "He will fall me off at Langley and afterwards he would certainly take place his means to his aircraft mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz functions as an air visitor traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz learnt about however had actually never seen personally." He's discussed to me what his work entails but taking an excursion of his project website provides me an entire brand new understanding," she stated after a trip of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is actually honored to commemorate National Hispanic Culture Month, the annual observance honoring the vast and wealthy backgrounds, societies, and additions of the Hispanic and Latino neighborhood. In words of NASA Administrator Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward and up!".