Jose M. Hernandez is a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut, the son of migrant farmworkers, who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-128 in 2009, a resupply flight to the International Space Station. Before joining NASA he worked as an engineer developing medical imaging and nuclear nonproliferation technology, and he later pursued a career in California politics and public speaking focused on education and opportunity for children of migrant farmworking families.
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1. José M. Hernández
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1962-08-07
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is a Mexican-American engineer and astronaut
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While in orbit, Hernández became the first person to use the Spanish language in space while tweeting.
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as a mission specialist-flight engineer on the STS-128 mission
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Hernández was on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in August 2009.
View the Source2. The Space Devs Launch Library 2: Launch Library 2 astronaut list, records 101 to 200
The Space Devs Launch Library 2Astronaut record 137, José HernándezQuote, Astronaut record 137, José Hernández
"name": "José Hernández" ... "flights_count": 1
Wikidata: Jose M. Hernandez
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