.In this particular photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, grins at the video camera as he expects his rely on go into the space capsule Revelation as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective and the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 workers administered three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a products research study designer in the Products & Processes branch eventually, he became division principal. In 2004, he was actually decided on as an astronaut applicant, and in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic colleagues, previous as well as existing, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.