.In this picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the video camera as he waits on his look to enter into the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 crew conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes division eventually, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was selected as an astronaut prospect, as well as in 2009, he ended up being a staff member of STS-128.Learn more about several of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and also existing, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Graphic credit score: NASA/Jim Grossmann.