.In this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, grins at the electronic camera as he waits for his turn to get in the space capsule Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle purpose as well as the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 staff administered three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components research designer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he came to be division main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer prospect, and also in 2009, he came to be a workers member of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic associates, previous as well as existing, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.