.In this particular photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the camera as he awaits his turn to enter into the space shuttle Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle goal and the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 workers administered three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a products investigation developer in the Materials & Processes branch at some point, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he ended up being a workers member of STS-128.Learn more about some of our Hispanic associates, past as well as existing, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.