.Within this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, grins at the video camera as he waits on his turn to get in the space capsule Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective and the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 crew performed three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a materials study designer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he became branch chief. In 2004, he was decided on as a rocketeer prospect, and in 2009, he became a team member of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also existing, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.