.Within this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits for his count on enter the space capsule Revelation 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 orbital lab, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a materials research designer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer prospect, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Be familiar with several of our Hispanic co-workers, past and current, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.