.Within this picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, purpose specialist, smiles at the camera as he expects his turn to enter the space capsule Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle mission as well as the 30th purpose to the International Space Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 crew conducted three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a materials analysis designer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer applicant, as well as in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Get to know several of our Hispanic co-workers, previous and present, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.