.In this particular photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the cam as he expects his turn to enter the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff administered three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a products research designer in the Products & Processes division ultimately, he ended up being division chief. In 2004, he was decided on as an astronaut prospect, and also in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and present, during Hispanic Heritage Month.Image debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.