.In this particular photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, grins at the electronic camera as he waits for his turn to get into the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products research engineer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually picked as a rocketeer applicant, and in 2009, he came to be a crew member of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic colleagues, previous as well as found, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.