.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, grins at the electronic camera as he awaits his look to get into the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components research study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer prospect, and also in 2009, he became a workers participant of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and existing, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.