.In this particular picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, grins at the camera as he awaits his count on enter the space shuttle Revelation as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal and the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 crew administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a components analysis engineer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he became division main. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut applicant, as well as in 2009, he came to be a team participant of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic associates, past and also present, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.