NASA astronaut Jose M. Hernandez will ride on the Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist on the STS-128 mission as it travels to the International Space Station. The launch is scheduled for late August 2009.
Born in California into a family of migrant farm workers, Hernandez spent his childhood picking crops all over California, and learned to speak English when he was twelve years old. When he was in high school, he heard a radio report about Franklin Chang-Diaz , who had just been selected to join the astronaut corp. Inspired by Chang-Diaz, and already interested in science and engineering, Hernandez decided that he would become an astronaut and fly in space. After earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of the Pacific in 1984, and an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of California-Santa Barbara, he worked at the Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. He joined the Johnson Space Center in 2001, and NASA selected him in 2004.
His full biography can be found on the NASA website:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hernandez-jm.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts128/
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