.In this particular photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, grins at the video camera as he awaits his look to get into the space capsule Discovery as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 staff conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a materials study engineer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he became division principal. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a workers member of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also current, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.