.Within this photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, grins at the camera as he expects his look to enter the space capsule Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 workers carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a components analysis developer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a team member of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic colleagues, previous as well as found, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.