.Within this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, grins at the electronic camera as he waits on his count on enter into the space capsule Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective and the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 crew performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a products research study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he became branch main. In 2004, he was decided on as an astronaut applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a workers member of STS-128.Learn more about several of our Hispanic associates, previous and found, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.