.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz really did not imagine that time she would operate at NASA. Today, she serves as technological project planner at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, supporting its Aeronautics Investigation Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement requires her to take a trip in support of social involvement occasions and recently she sustained NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the firm's display featured Spanish-language stalk products.One thing, or rather, a person, created this occasion particularly unique for Cruz-Diaz: Her boy, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently serving in the USA Marine Corps and is actually pointed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of luck, they were actually both working the exact same event for their respective companies. Surviving contrary edges of the country, they hadn't viewed one another face to face for almost a year. With surprise and joy, they embraced.Maturing in a Puerto Rican house, conversations regarding core market values revolved around loved ones, Martinez-Cruz mentioned. He remembered viewing his mama work at NASA and feeling inspired through her job principles. That amount of commitment ran in the loved ones." Israel as well as I would certainly carpool," she pointed out. "He would fall me off at Langley and then he would take place his way to his aircraft mechanic school.".Martinez-Cruz acts as an air visitor traffic operator, job that Cruz-Diaz found out about but had actually never seen personally." He's explained to me what his task requires but taking a trip of his job website gives me an entire new understanding," she mentioned after an excursion of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is happy to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the yearly celebration recognizing the large and abundant histories, societies, and also contributions of the Hispanic and Latino community. In words of NASA Manager Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward as well as upward!".