.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, grins at the video camera as he awaits his look to get into the space capsule Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a components research study developer in the Materials & Processes division inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Understand some of our Hispanic coworkers, past and also current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.