.Within this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, grins at the electronic camera as he waits for his count on enter the space capsule Revelation as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus goal and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a materials research designer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he became branch chief. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a team member of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic associates, past and also existing, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.