.In this photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, smiles at the cam as he waits on his rely on enter into the space capsule Revelation as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle objective as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a materials research study designer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he ended up being branch main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as an astronaut prospect, and also in 2009, he came to be a crew member of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic associates, previous as well as current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.