.In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits on his turn to enter into the space capsule Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a products research developer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer applicant, and also in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Learn more about some of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also found, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.