.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal professional, grins at the video camera as he waits on his turn to enter into the space shuttle Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle purpose and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a products research engineer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he became branch chief. In 2004, he was actually picked as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a staff member of STS-128.Be familiar with several of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and present, during Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.