.Within this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, grins at the camera as he expects his look to enter the space capsule Exploration as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle objective and the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 staff performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a components investigation engineer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he came to be division main. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer prospect, as well as in 2009, he became a workers participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a few of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also found, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.