Upcoming Edutainment Event!
Upcoming Speaker
September 5th at 11:30 am EST
Astronaut José Hernández
SUBJECT | ASTRONAUT
Astronaut José Hernández is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California. Hernández was assigned to the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-128. He also served as chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center. Hernández previously developed equipment for full-field digital mammography at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Hernández is the subject of the 2023 biopic A Million Miles Away in which he is portrayed by Michael Peña.