.Within this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, smiles at the cam as he expects his count on enter into the space capsule Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission and the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a products research study designer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was decided on as a rocketeer prospect, and in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Get to know a few of our Hispanic colleagues, past and also present, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.