.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz failed to visualize that people time she would certainly operate at NASA. Today, she serves as specialized job planner at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, assisting its own Aeronautics Analysis Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement needs her to journey in support of social involvement activities and also recently she assisted NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the agency's cubicle included Spanish-language stalk materials.One thing, or, a person, made this occasion particularly one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently providing in the USA Marine Corps and also is stationed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a movement of luck, they were both operating the exact same event for their corresponding employers. Surviving on contrary edges of the nation, they had not found each other face to face for nearly a year. With unpleasant surprise and joy, they embraced.Growing in a Puerto Rican family, talks about center worths focused on family, Martinez-Cruz said. He remembered observing his mama operate at NASA and really feeling inspired through her work principles. That amount of devotion operated in the loved ones." Israel and I would carpool," she said. "He will fall me off at Langley and after that he will happen his method to his airplane mechanic institution.".Martinez-Cruz serves as an air website traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz found out about but had actually never found personally." He's explained to me what his job necessitates however taking a scenic tour of his job website gives me an entire new understanding," she claimed after a trip of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is pleased to celebrate National Hispanic Culture Month, the annual observance honoring the wide and also rich backgrounds, lifestyles, and also contributions 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 up!".