.In this particular picture from Aug. 7, 2009, Jose Hernandez, goal expert, smiles at the video camera as he waits on his turn to enter into the space capsule Revelation as aspect of STS-128. It was actually the 128th Shuttle bus objective and the 30th purpose to the International Spaceport Station.
While at the orbital lab, the STS-128 staff performed 3 spacewalks.Hernandez joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 2001. Certainly there, he was actually a materials research study developer in the Products & Processes division inevitably, he became division principal. In 2004, he was chosen as a rocketeer applicant, and in 2009, he became a crew member of STS-128.Be familiar with some of our Hispanic associates, past and current, during Hispanic Culture Month.Image credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann.