.In this particular image from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission professional, grins at the video camera as he expects his rely on go into the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus goal as well as the 30th mission to the International Space Station. While at the periodic laboratory, the STS-128 staff carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components investigation developer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut prospect, and also in 2009, he became a crew member of STS-128.Learn more about a number of our Hispanic associates, past as well as found, throughout Hispanic Heritage Month.Photo debt: NASA/Jim Grossmann.