.In this photograph coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal specialist, smiles at the electronic camera as he waits on his look to get in the space capsule Exploration as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal as well as the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team conducted 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a components investigation engineer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was picked as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he became a staff participant of STS-128.Get to know a few of our Hispanic colleagues, previous and also current, in the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.