.In this photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, smiles at the video camera as he waits on his look to get in the space shuttle Exploration as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle 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 joined NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products analysis designer in the Products & Processes branch eventually, he became branch main. In 2004, he was picked as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he ended up being a staff participant of STS-128.Be familiar with a number of our Hispanic colleagues, past and existing, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Photo credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.