José Moreno Hernández was born on August 7, 1962, in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown. He is an American engineer of Mexican descent and a NASA astronaut. 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 c...
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José Moreno Hernández was born on August 7, 1962, in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown. He is an American engineer of Mexican descent and a NASA astronaut. 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 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. He is currently assigned to the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-128. Hernandez also served as chief of the Materials and Processes branch of Johnson Space Center. He previously developed equipment for full-field digital mammography at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of the Pacific, 1984...
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