.In this picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the video camera as he waits on his look to enter the space shuttle Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle purpose and the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 staff performed three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a components study developer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually decided on as an astronaut prospect, as well as in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic coworkers, previous as well as present, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.