.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, grins at the electronic camera as he waits on his count on enter the space capsule Revelation as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle goal and also the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a products research engineer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was selected as an astronaut prospect, and also in 2009, he became a staff member of STS-128.Get to know several of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also existing, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit scores: NASA/Jim Grossmann.