.In this photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, smiles at the cam as he waits for his turn to go into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission as well as the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a components analysis engineer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was decided on as a rocketeer applicant, and in 2009, he became a team participant of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic associates, past and also existing, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.