.In this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the cam as he waits for his count on get in the space capsule Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective and the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 staff conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products research developer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was chosen as an astronaut applicant, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a few of our Hispanic co-workers, past as well as present, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.