.In this particular image coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective specialist, smiles at the camera as he waits on his count on enter into the space shuttle Discovery as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle objective and the 30th objective to the International Space Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team carried out 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products study engineer in the Products & Processes division eventually, he became division chief. In 2004, he was selected as an astronaut candidate, and also in 2009, he came to be a staff member of STS-128.Get to know some of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and existing, in the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Image credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.