.In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, grins at the cam as he expects his turn to enter into the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research developer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he became division main. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer prospect, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a workers participant of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic colleagues, past and also existing, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Graphic credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.