.In this particular image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the video camera as he waits for his turn to get into the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective and the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a materials research engineer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he became division chief. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut prospect, and in 2009, he came to be a staff participant of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also found, throughout Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.