.Within this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits for his look to enter the space capsule Discovery as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle purpose as well as the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 staff carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components research engineer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he became division chief. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer candidate, and also in 2009, he ended up being a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a few of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and found, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.