.Within this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he expects his turn to go into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission and also the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff administered three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products research study designer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he ended up being division chief. In 2004, he was actually chosen as an astronaut candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a workers member of STS-128.Learn more about several of our Hispanic coworkers, past and current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.