.In this particular picture coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, grins at the video camera as he awaits his look to go into the space shuttle Discovery as component of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle goal and the 30th goal to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 crew performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez participated in NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components research designer in the Products & Processes division at some point, he ended up being division principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as an astronaut candidate, and in 2009, he became a crew member of STS-128.Understand a number of our Hispanic co-workers, past and also found, in the course of Hispanic Heritage Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.