.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the video camera as he awaits his look to go into the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus mission as well as the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 team performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a materials study developer in the Materials & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being branch main. In 2004, he was actually decided on as an astronaut candidate, and in 2009, he became a workers participant of STS-128.Learn more about a few of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and existing, during Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.