.Within this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, smiles at the electronic camera as he expects his turn to get into the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission as well as the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 crew conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a materials analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he became division chief. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a crew member of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic colleagues, previous as well as current, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.