.In this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the camera as he waits for his rely on enter into the space capsule Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a materials research study developer in the Materials & Processes division inevitably, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a workers member of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic co-workers, past as well as existing, during Hispanic Culture Month.Photo credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.