.In this particular image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits on his turn to go into the space capsule Exploration as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission and also the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a components study designer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and found, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.