.Lee esta historia en espau00f1ol aquu00ed.Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn’t imagine that time she would operate at NASA. Today, she functions as technical venture planner at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia, sustaining its own Flying Research study Directorate..Cruz-Diaz’s setting requires her to travel on behalf of social involvement activities and also just recently she supported NASA’s presence at the Miramar Airshow in San Diego, California where the firm’s display included Spanish-language stalk components.Something, or, a person, made this celebration particularly special for Cruz-Diaz: Her son, Israel Martinez-Cruz, is actually currently offering in the United States Marine Corps and also is actually pointed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar..In a stroke of blessing, they were actually each working the same celebration for their respective employers. Residing on opposite edges of the country, they had not seen one another face to face for nearly a year.
Along with unpleasant surprise and also pleasure, they hugged.Maturing in a Puerto Rican household, chats concerning center market values revolved around household, Martinez-Cruz said. He recollected observing his mom operate at NASA as well as experiencing inspired through her job ethic. That amount of devotion ran in the family members.” Israel and also I will carpool,” she mentioned.
“He would certainly drop me off at Langley and afterwards he would certainly go on his way to his aircraft mechanic school.”.Martinez-Cruz serves as an air website traffic operator, work that Cruz-Diaz learnt about yet had certainly never viewed in person.” He’s discussed to me what his job includes however taking a scenic tour of his work internet site offers me a whole brand new understanding,” she stated after a trip of the air traffic control service tower.NASA is pleased to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the yearly observance recognizing the wide and rich records, societies, as well as payments of the Hispanic and also Latino community. In the words of NASA Supervisor Bill Nelson, “Adelante y hacia arriba,” or “Onward and also upward!”.