Trying to find a better life in a different place.

As Latinas, it's a common thread in our lives, in our family's histories.

But for Diana Trujillo,

a better life in a different place didn't just bring her to the United States. It brought her to space.

Diana is an aerospace engineer. She works at NASA, where she's one of the flight directors for

NASA's Perseverance Rover, which is looking for signs of past life on Mars. Her journey to get here

is remarkable. It was fueled by some really powerful women and her deep conviction that Latinas

need to be in the room when we learn that there is life beyond this planet.

I want to start with the women in your family because it seems to me that the entire trajectory of your life is informed by your mom and by the women who raised you. So would you start by

telling me about them? My mom, my grandma, my great grandma,

and in general, my grandma's sisters, my cousins, this was a group of women that would get

together on my grandma's house, which was a block away from my house. And we will always have,

you know, a cafetto in the kitchen. They will talk about their marriage life.

What was going on with their husband,

what was going on with their kids.

And it was funny because all of them were older women.

And I think that the only kid was me

and sometimes my mom's cousin.

But to me, they were all my Dias.

There wasn't like first, second, third Tia.

There was like, my T.S. watching them talk to each other about the things that they wanted in

their lives, the things that they wanted to keep for their own personal development, but at the same

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