.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the video camera as he waits on his rely on get in the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 workers administered three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a materials investigation developer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he came to be division main. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut applicant, and in 2009, he ended up being a team participant of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and present, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.