.In this particular photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the video camera as he expects his look to enter into the space shuttle Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal as well as the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff performed three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a materials research engineer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he became division principal. In 2004, he was chosen as an astronaut prospect, and also in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic associates, previous and found, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.