.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't imagine that time she would work at NASA. Today, she works as technological task coordinator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its own Flight Study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's posture demands her to travel on behalf of social interaction activities and also recently she assisted NASA's existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the agency's booth included Spanish-language stalk products.One thing, or rather, a person, made this event particularly one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently offering in the United States Marine Corps and is posted at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of blessing, they were actually each functioning the very same occasion for their particular employers. Living on contrary edges of the nation, they hadn't seen each other personally for almost a year. With surprise and also pleasure, they hugged.Growing up in a Puerto Rican house, discussions about center market values revolved around loved ones, Martinez-Cruz stated. He remembered finding his mommy operate at NASA and feeling motivated by her job values. That level of devotion operated in the loved ones." Israel as well as I will carpool," she stated. "He will lose me off at Langley and then he will go on his means to his aircraft mechanic school.".Martinez-Cruz serves as a sky website traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz learnt about however had certainly never found personally." He's revealed to me what his job necessitates however taking an excursion of his job internet site provides me a whole new understanding," she mentioned after a scenic tour of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is actually pleased to celebrate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the annual observance honoring the broad as well as rich past histories, lifestyles, and also payments of the Hispanic and Latino neighborhood. In the words of NASA Supervisor Costs Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Onward as well as up!".