.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not visualize that time she would certainly operate at NASA. Today, she acts as specialized job organizer at NASA's Langley in Virginia, supporting its Air transportation Study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement requires her to journey in support of social interaction activities and recently she sustained NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the organization's booth featured Spanish-language STEM products.Something, or rather, a person, created this occasion especially special for Cruz-Diaz: Her kid, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently providing in the United States Marine Corps and is actually pointed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually each working the same event for their corresponding employers. Living on opposite edges of the nation, they had not observed each other face to face for nearly a year. Along with shock and happiness, they hugged.Growing in a Puerto Rican household, conversations about center worths focused on family members, Martinez-Cruz claimed. He remembered finding his mommy work at NASA and also feeling encouraged by her job values. That amount of devotion managed in the family members." Israel and also I would carpool," she pointed out. "He would certainly drop me off at Langley and afterwards he would certainly go on his way to his aircraft mechanic institution.".Martinez-Cruz acts as an air website traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz found out about however had never ever found personally." He is actually discussed to me what his project calls for yet taking a tour of his job site offers me an entire brand-new understanding," she said after a tour of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is actually happy to commemorate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the yearly celebration honoring the large and also abundant pasts, societies, as well as payments of the Hispanic and also Latino neighborhood. In the words of NASA Manager Costs Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or even "Onward as well as upward!".