.Within this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits for his turn to get into the space shuttle Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle purpose and the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 workers conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a products research study developer in the Products & Processes branch eventually, he ended up being branch chief. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic associates, previous and also current, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.