.In this particular photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, smiles at the cam as he waits for his rely on go into the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective and also the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 crew carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a components research study designer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being division principal. In 2004, he was actually picked as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic associates, previous and also current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.