.In this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits for his look to enter into the space capsule Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team performed three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research designer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he became branch chief. In 2004, he was decided on as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a staff participant of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and also existing, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.