.Within this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose professional, smiles at the camera as he waits on his look to go into the space shuttle Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal and also the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 workers carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a components analysis developer in the Materials & Processes division eventually, he came to be branch chief. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut candidate, as well as in 2009, he became a workers participant of STS-128.Learn more about several of our Hispanic colleagues, past and also present, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.