.In this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits on his rely on get in the space shuttle Revelation as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff performed three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a materials analysis designer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut candidate, as well as in 2009, he became a staff member of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and existing, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.