.In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, grins at the video camera as he waits on his look to enter into the space capsule Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus objective and also the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team performed three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components analysis designer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he ended up being a crew member of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic co-workers, previous as well as current, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.