.In this photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, smiles at the camera as he expects his look to enter into the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle goal and also the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a materials research study engineer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he came to be branch chief. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut prospect, as well as in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Learn more about several of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and found, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.