.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, smiles at the video camera as he expects his count on enter the space capsule Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission and also the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was selected as an astronaut prospect, and in 2009, he ended up being a crew member of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic associates, previous as well as existing, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.