.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, smiles at the cam as he waits for his look to get into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and also the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a products research study developer in the Materials & Processes division inevitably, he became division principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as an astronaut applicant, and also in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and also found, throughout Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.