.In this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the camera as he expects his rely on go into the space capsule Exploration as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 team conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a materials investigation developer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually chosen as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he ended up being a workers member of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and also found, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Photo credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.