.Within this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, grins at the camera as he waits on his look to go into the space shuttle Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and also the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a products research designer in the Products & Processes branch ultimately, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a team participant of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic coworkers, past and also existing, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Picture debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.