.Within this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the cam as he expects his turn to go into the space capsule Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission as well as the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a components research designer in the Products & Processes division eventually, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he came to be a crew member of STS-128.Learn more about a few of our Hispanic coworkers, past and existing, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.