.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the video camera as he waits for his look to get into the space shuttle Revelation as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products analysis developer in the Products & Processes division eventually, he became branch main. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a workers member of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic coworkers, past and also current, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.