.Within this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, smiles at the electronic camera as he expects his count on enter into the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle purpose and also the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he became division principal. In 2004, he was chosen as an astronaut applicant, and also in 2009, he came to be a staff participant of STS-128.Learn more about a few of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and current, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.