José M. Hernández
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| NASA Astronaut | |
| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | José Moreno Hernández August 7, 1962 French Camp, California, U.S. |
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Current occupation
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Businessman, politician |
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Previous occupation
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Engineer, astronaut |
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University of the Pacific (B.S. 1984) University of California, Santa Barbara (M.S. 1986) |
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Time in space
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13 days, 20 hours, and 54 minutes |
| Selection | 2004, NASA Astronaut Group 19 |
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Total EVAs
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0 |
| Missions | STS-128 |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | January 14, 2011 |
José Moreno Hernández (born August 7, 1962) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut.
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 left NASA in 2011.
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. He won the Democratic nomination, but lost the 2012 general election to freshman incumbent Representative Jeff Denham.
Hernández was born in French Camp, California, but calls , his hometown. His family is from La Piedad, Michoacán, with indigenous Purépecha roots. In an August 25, 2009, conversation with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, Hernández stated that as a child, he lived half the year in La Piedad and half in the United States. As a child, Hernández worked alongside his family and other farmworkers throughout the fields of California, harvesting crops and moving from one town to another. He attended many schools and didn't learn to speak English until he was 12.
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