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DrWatson · 70-79, M
Here is one very recent example. I have excerpted passages from the Latin Times website:
Diana Trujillo was 17-years-old when she immigrated to the United States from Colombia with only $300 and not speaking any English. She worked housekeeping jobs to pay for her studies when in 2007 she decided to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars last week with Trujillo as its flight director on the mission. Trujillo said that it took her some time to process that it had arrived on another planet, according to a CBS News report.
Trujillo is now part of NASA in Jet Propulsion Lab. She worked on the team that created that robotic arm that is responsible for the collection of rock samples on Mars.
Trujillo is one of the few Hispanic women working in the same field, saying that she has not forgotten her roots and that it helped her get to the top of the aerospace field, according to a People report.
In addition, she said that being an immigrant motivates her to always give her best, especially that she came in a country that had limited opportunities.
"I was born and raised in Colombia. There was a lot of violence going on in my country, so for me, looking up at the sky and looking at the stars was my safe place," Trujillo was quoted in a report.
Trujillo said that part of the reason that she wanted to get into the space field was to prove some of her family members wrong, saying that she wanted her family members, particularly the males, to recognize that women add value.
Back in college, Trujillo said she did not know what major she would declare at the University of Florida. It was when she reached the dean and saw a magazine that had images of a female astronauts that she chose aerospace engineering as a major.
Diana Trujillo was 17-years-old when she immigrated to the United States from Colombia with only $300 and not speaking any English. She worked housekeeping jobs to pay for her studies when in 2007 she decided to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA's Perseverance rover successfully landed on Mars last week with Trujillo as its flight director on the mission. Trujillo said that it took her some time to process that it had arrived on another planet, according to a CBS News report.
Trujillo is now part of NASA in Jet Propulsion Lab. She worked on the team that created that robotic arm that is responsible for the collection of rock samples on Mars.
Trujillo is one of the few Hispanic women working in the same field, saying that she has not forgotten her roots and that it helped her get to the top of the aerospace field, according to a People report.
In addition, she said that being an immigrant motivates her to always give her best, especially that she came in a country that had limited opportunities.
"I was born and raised in Colombia. There was a lot of violence going on in my country, so for me, looking up at the sky and looking at the stars was my safe place," Trujillo was quoted in a report.
Trujillo said that part of the reason that she wanted to get into the space field was to prove some of her family members wrong, saying that she wanted her family members, particularly the males, to recognize that women add value.
Back in college, Trujillo said she did not know what major she would declare at the University of Florida. It was when she reached the dean and saw a magazine that had images of a female astronauts that she chose aerospace engineering as a major.