.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't envision that one day she will work at NASA. Today, she serves as specialized venture organizer at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, supporting its Flying Analysis Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's position needs her to take a trip on behalf of public interaction celebrations as well as just recently she sustained NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the company's display included Spanish-language STEM components.One thing, or, an individual, created this occasion especially special for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently offering in the United States Marine Corps and is actually stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a movement of blessing, they were actually both functioning the exact same activity for their respective companies. Living on contrary edges of the country, they hadn't observed one another in person for almost a year. With surprise as well as happiness, they hugged.Growing in a Puerto Rican family, discussions regarding center values hinged on family, Martinez-Cruz claimed. He remembered viewing his mother operate at NASA and feeling encouraged by her job principles. That degree of devotion ran in the household." Israel as well as I will carpool," she mentioned. "He would certainly fall me off at Langley and after that he would happen his means to his plane mechanic institution.".Martinez-Cruz functions as a sky traffic operator, job that Cruz-Diaz understood about yet had actually certainly never seen face to face." He is actually clarified to me what his task requires but taking a trip of his job internet site gives me a whole brand-new understanding," she pointed out after a trip of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is glad to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the annual observance honoring the wide as well as abundant records, societies, and also payments of the Hispanic as well as Latino area. In the words of NASA Supervisor Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Forward and also upward!".