.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Maturing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't envision that day she will work at NASA. Today, she serves as specialized project planner at NASA's Langley Proving ground in Virginia, assisting its own Air transportation Research study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement requires her to journey on behalf of public engagement occasions and also just recently she supported NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the agency's cubicle included Spanish-language STEM materials.Something, or rather, someone, made this event particularly special for Cruz-Diaz: Her boy, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently serving in the United States Marine Corps and is posted at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of serendipity, they were actually both operating the same event for their respective companies. Living on contrary edges of the nation, they had not found one another personally for nearly a year. With shock and also delight, they hugged.Growing up in a Puerto Rican house, chats concerning center values revolved around loved ones, Martinez-Cruz said. He recollected seeing his mommy work at NASA and also really feeling encouraged through her job principles. That degree of devotion managed in the family members." Israel as well as I would certainly carpool," she claimed. "He will lose me off at Langley and afterwards he would certainly happen his method to his aircraft mechanic college.".Martinez-Cruz functions as an air traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz found out about but had actually never ever observed personally." He is actually described to me what his work includes yet taking a tour of his job site offers me a whole new understanding," she pointed out after an excursion of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is actually honored to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the yearly observance honoring the broad and wealthy records, lifestyles, as well as contributions of the Hispanic and also Latino neighborhood. In the words of NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward and also upward!".