.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, grins at the electronic camera as he waits on his count on get in the space shuttle Exploration as portion of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle objective and the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 workers performed three spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products study designer in the Products & Processes branch at some point, he ended up being branch principal. In 2004, he was chosen as an astronaut applicant, and also in 2009, he became a crew participant of STS-128.Understand several of our Hispanic co-workers, past and current, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.