.In this picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, smiles at the camera as he expects his rely on get in the space capsule Revelation as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a materials investigation engineer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he ended up being division principal. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer applicant, and in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic co-workers, past and existing, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.