.In this particular photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the cam as he waits for his turn to go into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a materials research study developer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also existing, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.