.Within this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose professional, smiles at the camera as he expects his turn to enter into the space capsule Revelation as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 crew administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a products research study engineer in the Materials & Processes division eventually, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was actually decided on as a rocketeer prospect, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic co-workers, past as well as existing, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.