.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz failed to imagine that people time she would certainly operate at NASA. Today, she acts as technological venture coordinator at NASA's Langley in Virginia, sustaining its Aeronautics Study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's posture needs her to journey in support of public involvement occasions and just recently she assisted NASA's existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the agency's cubicle included Spanish-language STEM materials.One thing, or, somebody, made this activity particularly distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her boy, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually presently offering in the USA Marine Corps and is actually pointed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were both functioning the very same event for their respective companies. Living on opposite edges of the country, they had not found one another personally for nearly a year. With shock and pleasure, they embraced.Growing in a Puerto Rican home, conversations regarding core worths revolved around loved ones, Martinez-Cruz said. He remembered finding his mother operate at NASA and also experiencing motivated through her work ethic. That amount of commitment managed in the family members." Israel and I will carpool," she stated. "He would certainly drop me off at Langley and afterwards he would go on his way to his airplane mechanic institution.".Martinez-Cruz functions as a sky traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz knew about but had certainly never found personally." He is actually revealed to me what his work requires but taking a tour of his job web site offers me a whole brand-new understanding," she claimed after a trip of the air traffic control tower.NASA is actually pleased to commemorate National Hispanic Culture Month, the yearly observance recognizing the wide as well as abundant backgrounds, cultures, and also payments of the Hispanic and Latino area. In words of NASA Administrator Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Onward as well as up!".