.In this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, grins at the electronic camera as he expects his look to get into the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle purpose and the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components study engineer in the Materials & Processes division ultimately, he became division principal. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he came to be a team member of STS-128.Get to know a number of our Hispanic associates, previous as well as found, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.