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José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer [3] and astronaut. He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California. Hernández was on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in August 2009. He also served as chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center.
Finally on August 29, 2009, Hernández would finally get to go to space. He traveled 14 days as a crew member on the shuttle Discovery, which transported seven tons of equipment and supplies to ...
Actor Michael Peña portrays astronaut José Hernández in “A Million Miles Away,” which tells the story of a boy who grew up as a migrant worker but kept his eyes trained on the stars.
First Puerto Rican astronaut STS-119 (March 15, 2009) Soyuz TMA-04M (May 15, 2012) [2] Soyuz MS-06 (September 12, 2017) 12 José M. Hernández August 7, 1962 United States ( Mexico) First migrant farm worker in space. STS-128 (August 28, 2009) 13 Serena M. Auñón April 9, 1976 United States ( Cuba) Soyuz MS-09 (June 6, 2018) 14 Francisco Rubio
The Space Shuttle Columbia was lost as it returned from a two-week mission when previously detected damage to the shuttle's thermal protection system (TPS) resulted in the spacecraft breaking apart during reentry at an altitude of just under 65 km and a speed of about Mach 19. Investigation revealed that a piece of foam insulation had fallen ...
NASA Latino astronaut José M. Hernández' life from a migrant farmworker to going to space is the topic of Prime Video’s “A Million Miles Away” with Michael Peña.
Michael Peña stars as José M. Hernández, the first migrant worker to go to space, in the Prime Video biopic 'A Million Miles Away.' Review: A real-life migrant worker's goal to become an ...
Mir = Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station; ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station. Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics. They did not have specific crew roles, but are listed in the Payload Specialist columns for reasons of space.