.Within this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, smiles at the cam as he expects his turn to get into the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and also the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team performed three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research study designer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he came to be division main. In 2004, he was decided on as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Get to know a few of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and current, during Hispanic Culture Month.Picture debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.