.In this particular photo from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, smiles at the camera as he expects his look to get in the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus goal and the 30th mission to the International Spaceport Station. While at the periodic lab, the STS-128 staff performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research study developer in the Materials & Processes branch ultimately, he came to be branch principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer applicant, and also in 2009, he became a team participant of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic colleagues, previous as well as existing, during the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Graphic credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.