.Within this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the cam as he waits for his count on enter the space shuttle Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a products research study developer in the Products & Processes branch ultimately, he ended up being branch main. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer applicant, and in 2009, he ended up being a staff member of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and present, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.