Latinas in NASA's space exploration

Ivette Rivera Aponte and Diana Trujillo are two engineers at NASA. From the west coast of the US, Diana has been essential in carrying out the mission of the Rover Curiosity program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California; to determine if Mars was or will be suitable for life. In addition, it seeks to educate with talks and conferences to explain how a human exploration mission would be carried out on Mars. While on the East Coast, Ivette Rivera Aponte currently works at the SLS (Space Launch Systems Rocket) at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. NASA's space exploration plans include the scheduled manned missions of the Orion Program on the Moon and Mars.