.Within this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the electronic camera as he awaits his look to get in the space capsule Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus goal as well as the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a materials analysis designer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he ended up being branch chief. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a workers member of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic associates, previous as well as found, during Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.