.Within this photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, grins at the cam as he expects his look to enter the space shuttle Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 crew administered three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a components research designer in the Materials & Processes division inevitably, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was selected as a rocketeer applicant, and in 2009, he became a team member of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and existing, during Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.