.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits on his rely on enter into the space shuttle Discovery as portion of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle purpose and the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 staff administered three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a products research designer in the Products & Processes branch eventually, he became branch principal. In 2004, he was decided on as an astronaut prospect, as well as in 2009, he came to be a crew participant of STS-128.Be familiar with several of our Hispanic associates, previous and also current, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.