.Within this image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose expert, grins at the electronic camera as he waits on his look to get in the space shuttle Revelation as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus goal as well as the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. There certainly, he was actually a materials research developer in the Materials & Processes division at some point, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer candidate, and also in 2009, he ended up being a team member of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic coworkers, previous as well as current, during Hispanic Culture Month.Graphic credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.