.Within this photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the cam as he awaits his look to go into the space shuttle Revelation as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and also the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 workers performed three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a products research study engineer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he came to be division principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a team member of STS-128.Get to know several of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also existing, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Picture credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.