José M. Hernández
American engineer and former NASA astronaut / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is a Mexican-American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He currently serves as a Regent of the University of California.
José Hernández | |
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Born | José Moreno Hernández (1962-08-07) August 7, 1962 (age 61) French Camp, California, U.S. |
Education | University of the Pacific (BS) University of California, Santa Barbara (MS) |
Space career | |
NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 13d 20h 54m[1] |
Selection | NASA Group 19 (2004) |
Missions | STS-128 |
Mission insignia | |
Retirement | January 14, 2011[2] |
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.
In October 2011, Hernández, at the urging of President Barack Obama, ran for Congress as a Democrat in California's newly redrawn 10th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.[3] He won the Democratic nomination, but lost the 2012 general election to freshman Representative Jeff Denham.
Hernández is the subject of the 2023 biopic A Million Miles Away in which he is portrayed by Michael Peña.[4][5]