.Within this photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the video camera as he waits for his count on get into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission and the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a components research designer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a crew member of STS-128.Get to know a few of our Hispanic associates, past and also current, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.