.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz failed to think of that one time she would work at NASA. Today, she acts as specialized task organizer at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, assisting its own Flight Research study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's position demands her to travel on behalf of public engagement occasions and also just recently she sustained NASA's presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the organization's display included Spanish-language STEM components.Something, or rather, someone, created this celebration particularly special for Cruz-Diaz: Her boy, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is presently providing in the USA Marine Corps and is pointed at Marine Corps Air Base Miramar..In a stroke of serendipity, they were each working the same occasion for their respective employers. Surviving on contrary edges of the nation, they had not viewed one another in person for virtually a year. With surprise and joy, they embraced.Growing in a Puerto Rican household, chats about core worths hinged on family, Martinez-Cruz said. He recollected seeing his mommy work at NASA and feeling motivated through her job values. That level of commitment operated in the family members." Israel as well as I would certainly carpool," she said. "He will lose me off at Langley and afterwards he will take place his means to his airplane mechanic school.".Martinez-Cruz serves as an air traffic operator, job that Cruz-Diaz learnt about but had actually never observed face to face." He is actually detailed to me what his task calls for but taking a scenic tour of his task site offers me a whole new understanding," she stated after a scenic tour of the air traffic control service high rise.NASA is actually proud to commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the annual observance recognizing the vast and also abundant histories, cultures, as well as contributions of the Hispanic and also Latino community. In words of NASA Manager Expense Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Onward and upwards!".