.Within this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the video camera as he awaits his look to go into the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 workers administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components analysis designer in the Products & Processes branch eventually, he ended up being branch chief. In 2004, he was selected as an astronaut applicant, and also in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a few of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also current, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Photo credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.