.In this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, grins at the cam as he waits on his rely on enter the space capsule Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective as well as the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a components research designer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he became branch chief. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic co-workers, past and current, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.