.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, grins at the cam as he awaits his count on enter the space capsule Revelation as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission as well as the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 workers administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a products analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes division inevitably, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he became a staff member of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic coworkers, previous as well as current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.