.In this particular photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he expects his count on go into the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal as well as the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a materials analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes division eventually, he ended up being branch main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer candidate, and also in 2009, he ended up being a team participant of STS-128.Be familiar with several of our Hispanic colleagues, past and also found, throughout Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.