.Within this photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, grins at the camera as he expects his turn to get in the space capsule Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a materials investigation designer in the Products & Processes division eventually, he ended up being branch chief. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer prospect, and in 2009, he came to be a crew participant of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic associates, previous and also present, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.