From Colombia to Mars, NASA engineer achieves dreams of reaching space
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Diana Trujillo is NASA's aerospace engineering that shattered the glass ceiling to become the flight director of Mars historic Perseverance mission.Screenshot Twitter/CBS News
Diana Trujillo only dreamed of reaching space back in her homeland of Colombia. Today she is the flight director on the historic Mars Perseverance mission.
Trujillo is an aerospace engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and had an instrumental part in the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet, according to NASA.
She came to the U.S. with only $300 and worked housekeeping jobs to pay for school. Now she's a flight director for NASA's Mars Perseverance. https://t.co/a5e8YaGFcw— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 1, 2021