.Within this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, grins at the camera as he awaits his look to enter into the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 workers conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components analysis designer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he ended up being branch chief. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut candidate, as well as in 2009, he became a team participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a few of our Hispanic coworkers, past and existing, throughout Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.