.In this photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal professional, smiles at the video camera as he expects his turn to enter the space capsule Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a materials study designer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he became division chief. In 2004, he was actually selected as an astronaut prospect, and in 2009, he ended up being a workers member of STS-128.Get to know a few of our Hispanic co-workers, past and existing, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.