.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, grins at the video camera as he waits for his rely on get into the space capsule Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a materials research study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer prospect, and also in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Learn more about a few of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and existing, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.