.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, grins at the camera as he waits for his count on go into the space capsule Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 workers conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a products study engineer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he became branch principal. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer candidate, and also in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Get to know several of our Hispanic coworkers, past as well as existing, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.