.In this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, grins at the electronic camera as he waits for his rely on enter into the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal and the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 workers performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was actually a products analysis engineer in the Materials & Processes division ultimately, he came to be division main. In 2004, he was actually chosen as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Get to know a few of our Hispanic colleagues, past and current, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.