.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't picture that a person time she would work at NASA. Today, she acts as technological job organizer at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its own Aviation Research Directorate..Cruz-Diaz's placement requires her to take a trip in support of public interaction occasions and recently she assisted NASA's visibility at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, The golden state where the firm's display included Spanish-language stalk components.One thing, or, a person, created this occasion specifically one-of-a-kind for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is currently serving in the USA Marine Corps as well as is actually based at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a movement of serendipity, they were each working the same celebration for their particular companies. Residing on contrary edges of the country, they had not observed each other face to face for nearly a year. Along with unpleasant surprise as well as delight, they hugged.Growing up in a Puerto Rican home, talks regarding core values hinged on household, Martinez-Cruz mentioned. He remembered viewing his mama work at NASA and also really feeling influenced by her work ethic. That degree of commitment managed in the family members." Israel and also I would carpool," she said. "He would fall me off at Langley and then he would certainly go on his means to his plane mechanic university.".Martinez-Cruz acts as an air visitor traffic controller, job that Cruz-Diaz found out about however had never ever seen personally." He is actually discussed to me what his job entails however taking a tour of his job site offers me an entire new understanding," she claimed after a scenic tour of the air traffic control high rise.NASA is actually glad to commemorate National Hispanic Culture Month, the annual celebration recognizing the vast and also wealthy backgrounds, lifestyles, as well as additions of the Hispanic as well as Latino area. In words of NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, "Adelante y hacia arriba," or "Forward and also up!".