.In this photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission specialist, grins at the camera as he expects his rely on get into the space shuttle Exploration as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus objective as well as the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital laboratory, the STS-128 workers performed three spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was a products research study engineer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he came to be division main. In 2004, he was actually decided on as an astronaut prospect, and in 2009, he ended up being a workers member of STS-128.Understand a few of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also present, throughout Hispanic Culture Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.