.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not visualize that people time she would certainly work at NASA. Today, she functions as technological project planner at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, sustaining its own Flight Research Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's setting requires her to travel in support of social involvement events and also just recently she sustained NASA's presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the firm's booth included Spanish-language stalk materials.One thing, or rather, someone, made this celebration particularly distinct for Cruz-Diaz: Her child, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently providing in the USA Marine Corps and also is actually posted at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a movement of serendipity, they were actually both functioning the exact same activity for their respective companies. Living on opposite edges of the country, they hadn't seen each other face to face for nearly a year. With surprise as well as delight, they hugged.Growing up in a Puerto Rican family, talks concerning primary market values focused on household, Martinez-Cruz claimed. He remembered finding his mommy operate at NASA and also really feeling influenced by her job principles. That level of dedication ran in the family." Israel and also I will carpool," she stated. "He would certainly fall me off at Langley and then he would go on his technique to his plane mechanic university.".Martinez-Cruz serves as an air web traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz knew about yet had never seen face to face." He's revealed to me what his job entails yet taking an excursion of his job internet site offers me a whole brand-new understanding," she stated after an excursion of the air traffic control service tower.NASA is pleased to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the annual celebration honoring the vast as well as rich records, lifestyles, and also additions of the Hispanic and Latino area. In words of NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Onward and up!".