.In this particular image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, grins at the cam as he expects his rely on enter into the space capsule Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 team administered three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a components study designer in the Products & Processes branch inevitably, he became branch chief. In 2004, he was selected as an astronaut candidate, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic co-workers, past as well as existing, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit history: NASA/Jim Grossmann.