.In this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, grins at the electronic camera as he waits on his turn to get in the space shuttle Exploration as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle objective as well as the 30th goal to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 staff administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products research study designer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was decided on as a rocketeer prospect, and also in 2009, he ended up being a workers participant of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also existing, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.