.In this particular image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, smiles at the cam as he waits on his look to go into the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission and also the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products study engineer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he became branch main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer prospect, as well as in 2009, he became a workers member of STS-128.Get to know a number of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and also present, during Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.