.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits on his look to get into the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and also the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 team conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a materials research study designer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he ended up being division chief. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer applicant, and also in 2009, he came to be a staff participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic associates, past as well as current, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.