.Within this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, grins at the video camera as he awaits his rely on go into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus goal and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 workers carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research developer in the Products & Processes branch ultimately, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as an astronaut prospect, as well as in 2009, he came to be a crew participant of STS-128.Learn more about several of our Hispanic coworkers, past and found, throughout Hispanic Ancestry Month.Graphic credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.