.In this particular image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, grins at the camera as he expects his look to enter the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a materials research engineer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he became division main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic co-workers, past as well as existing, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.