.In this particular photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, smiles at the electronic camera as he expects his rely on enter into the space shuttle Exploration as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle purpose as well as the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 workers carried out three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was a components analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he came to be branch main. In 2004, he was chosen as an astronaut prospect, and in 2009, he ended up being a crew member of STS-128.Learn more about some of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and present, during Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.