.In this photograph from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, mission expert, grins at the cam as he waits for his look to get in the space shuttle Revelation as component of STS-128. It was the 128th Shuttle bus purpose as well as the 30th objective to the International Space Station.
While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 team administered 3 spacewalks.Hernandez signed up with NASA’s Johnson Space Facility in Houston in 2001. There, he was a products analysis engineer in the Products & Processes division eventually, he came to be division chief. In 2004, he was actually picked as an astronaut applicant, and in 2009, he came to be a staff participant of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic associates, past as well as current, during the course of Hispanic Ancestry Month.Picture credit report: NASA/Jim Grossmann.