.In this picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits on his count on go into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle purpose and also the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers administered 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 came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually selected as an astronaut candidate, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a crew participant of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic co-workers, previous as well as found, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.