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.
She added that it was when she was watching the image that she actually processed that they had actually landed.
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