.In this particular photo coming from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, objective professional, smiles at the cam as he expects his look to enter the space shuttle Discovery as part of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle goal as well as the 30th objective to the International Spaceport Station. While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a components study engineer in the Materials & Processes division inevitably, he became division principal. In 2004, he was actually selected as a rocketeer candidate, and in 2009, he became a team participant of STS-128.Understand some of our Hispanic coworkers, previous and present, during the course of Hispanic Culture Month.Photo credit rating: NASA/Jim Grossmann.