.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the camera as he waits for his rely on get in the space capsule Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and also the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 workers carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a products study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he became branch principal. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut applicant, as well as in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic coworkers, previous as well as present, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.