.In this particular image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits on his count on get into the space shuttle Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a products investigation designer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic coworkers, past and also current, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.