.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, smiles at the camera as he awaits his look to get in the space shuttle Exploration as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective and also the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products investigation developer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he came to be a team participant of STS-128.Get to know several of our Hispanic associates, previous and found, throughout Hispanic Ancestry Month.Graphic credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.