.In this particular photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits on his look to get into the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle mission and also the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 staff administered three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a materials research developer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a workers member of STS-128.Learn more about a few of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and current, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.