.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not imagine that a person day she would certainly operate at NASA. Today, she works as technological job planner at NASA’s Langley Proving ground in Virginia, sustaining its Astronautics Research study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz’s posture needs her to take a trip on behalf of public interaction celebrations and also just recently she assisted NASA’s visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the company’s booth featured Spanish-language stalk products.Something, or rather, an individual, made this occasion especially special for Cruz-Diaz: Her kid, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently offering in the USA Marine Corps as well as is actually stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually both working the exact same event for their particular companies. Residing on contrary edges of the country, they had not seen one another face to face for almost a year.
Along with surprise and also pleasure, they hugged.Growing in a Puerto Rican family, talks concerning center values hinged on family members, Martinez-Cruz mentioned. He remembered observing his mama work at NASA and feeling influenced through her job ethic. That amount of dedication managed in the loved ones.” Israel as well as I would carpool,” she said.
“He would lose me off at Langley and afterwards he will happen his way to his aircraft mechanic school.”.Martinez-Cruz functions as an air visitor traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz found out about yet had actually never found in person.” He is actually described to me what his task involves yet taking a tour of his project website provides me a whole brand new understanding,” she stated after a tour of the air traffic control tower.NASA is actually glad to commemorate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the annual observance recognizing the wide as well as abundant backgrounds, societies, and additions of the Hispanic and also Latino neighborhood. In words of NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson, “Adelante y hacia arriba,” or “Onward as well as upward!”.