.In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the cam as he waits for his look to get into the space shuttle Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission as well as the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components study developer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he came to be division principal. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic colleagues, previous as well as present, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.