.Within this picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, smiles at the camera as he awaits his look to enter into the space shuttle Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal as well as the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a materials analysis developer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he ended up being division main. In 2004, he was decided on as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he became a team member of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also current, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.