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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.
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.
A Million Miles Away is a 2023 American biographical drama film detailing the life of José M. Hernández, a Mexican-American astronaut, who is played by Michael Peña.It was directed by Alejandra Marquez Abella from a screenplay written by Bettina Gilois and re-written by Hernán Jiménez and Abella, based on Hernandez's autobiography Reaching for the Stars.
Michael Peña stars as José M. Hernández, the first migrant worker to go to space, in the Prime Video biopic 'A Million Miles Away.'
NASA rejected the son of farmworkers from Michoacán, México 11 times before finally accepting him as an astronaut. Prime Video movie follows Central Valley farmworker’s journey from the fields ...
Franklin Ramón Chang-Díaz (born April 5, 1950, San José, Costa Rica) [1] is an American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company [2] as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. [3] He became an American citizen in 1977. [4]
Parker points instruments on ASTRO-1 on Columbia's aft flight deck during STS-35. Parker was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967. [3] He was a member of the Astronaut Support Crews for the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, and was the person to whom the final words spoken by a man standing on the surface of the Moon (Gene Cernan) were addressed.
My grandfather kept ledgers logging every day he worked in the U.S. The dry entries — "18 boxes of cherries, $4 per box" — tell a story of success against the odds.