.In this particular photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal professional, grins at the cam as he waits for his turn to get in the space capsule Revelation as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus mission and also the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team performed three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a materials analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut prospect, as well as in 2009, he came to be a workers participant of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic associates, previous as well as found, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.