NAME: José Hernández | AGE: 47 | HOME: Houston | QUALIFICATIONS: Joined the Johnson Space Center as an engineer in 2001 and was selected by NASA for astronaut training in 2004 / Served in 2009 as the flight engineer for STS-128 Discovery, whose crew transferred cargo to and from the International Space Station and attached the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module / Became the first person in space with a bilingual Twitter account, Astro_Jose• Growing up, I worked in the fields of California with my family. We picked cucumbers, cherries, tomatoes, peaches, everything. I knew that to get out of the fields, I needed to go to school. English was my second language, so I migrated naturally to math and science.• We’d watch the Apollo program’s…The post Flying on the Space Shuttle appeared first on Texas Monthly.