.Within this image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective expert, grins at the electronic camera as he waits on his turn to enter the space capsule Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal and the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a materials research engineer in the Materials & Processes branch eventually, he ended up being division chief. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he became a staff member of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic colleagues, past as well as present, during Hispanic Culture Month.Photo debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.