.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that a person day she will work at NASA. Today, she acts as technological venture planner at NASA’s Langley in Virginia, sustaining its Aviation Analysis Directorate..Cruz-Diaz’s setting needs her to travel on behalf of social interaction activities as well as lately she assisted NASA’s existence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the firm’s cubicle featured Spanish-language stalk products.Something, or, someone, created this event specifically one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her kid, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently serving in the USA Marine Corps and also is posted at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of blessing, they were actually each working the very same occasion for their particular employers. Living on contrary sides of the country, they had not observed each other face to face for nearly a year.
Along with unpleasant surprise and happiness, they embraced.Maturing in a Puerto Rican house, conversations regarding center values focused on family members, Martinez-Cruz mentioned. He remembered finding his mother work at NASA and really feeling encouraged by her work ethic. That level of devotion managed in the family members.” Israel and also I will carpool,” she claimed.
“He will fall me off at Langley and after that he will take place his technique to his aircraft mechanic college.”.Martinez-Cruz functions as a sky traffic controller, work that Cruz-Diaz knew about however had certainly never seen in person.” He’s explained to me what his work necessitates but taking a tour of his task internet site gives me an entire new understanding,” she pointed out after a tour of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is actually proud to commemorate National Hispanic Ancestry Month, the yearly celebration honoring the broad as well as rich past histories, cultures, as well as additions of the Hispanic as well as Latino community. In words of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, “Adelante y hacia arriba,” or “Onward and also up!”.