.In this particular image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, smiles at the cam as he awaits his turn to get in the space capsule Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus objective and the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 workers conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a materials research study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he ended up being division principal. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff participant of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic associates, past as well as current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.