.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, smiles at the camera as he awaits his turn to enter the space shuttle Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a components research designer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as an astronaut applicant, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a staff member of STS-128.Be familiar with several of our Hispanic coworkers, previous as well as found, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.