.In this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, smiles at the video camera as he waits for his turn to get into the space shuttle Exploration as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 crew administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a components investigation developer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Understand some of our Hispanic associates, past and current, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.