.In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, smiles at the video camera as he expects his turn to go into the space capsule Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective and also the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 crew carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a products research study engineer in the Products & Processes division eventually, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he became a workers participant of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic colleagues, past and found, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.