.Within this photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the camera as he awaits his rely on go into the space shuttle Revelation as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose and also the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff administered three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a materials analysis developer in the Products & Processes division ultimately, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was actually selected as an astronaut candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a workers member of STS-128.Learn more about a few of our Hispanic associates, previous and also current, during Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.