.In this particular image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal professional, smiles at the camera as he waits for his look to go into the space shuttle Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle goal and the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a products investigation designer in the Materials & Processes division ultimately, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually chosen as an astronaut prospect, and also in 2009, he came to be a crew participant of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also existing, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.