.In this picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, grins at the cam as he waits on his count on go into the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a products research developer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he became division chief. In 2004, he was decided on as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Get to know a number of our Hispanic coworkers, past as well as present, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.