.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, grins at the video camera as he waits for his look to get in the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus objective and the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a products research developer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he became branch principal. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a crew member of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic associates, past and also current, during Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.