.Within this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal professional, smiles at the electronic camera as he expects his count on go into the space shuttle Revelation as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission and the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 crew carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components analysis designer in the Materials & Processes division eventually, he became division chief. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a staff member of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic colleagues, past and also present, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.