Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez is welcomed to Kennedy Space Center by Center Director Bob Cabana a former astronaut himself.

STS-128 Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez is welcomed to Kennedy Space Center by Center Director Bob Cabana, a former astronaut himself. Hernandez will be making his first spaceflight. Space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 mission crew members arrived in a NASA Shuttle Training Aircraft, a modified Gulfstream II jet, at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility at 6:34 p.m. EDT. The crew has returned to Kennedy to prepare for launch on Aug. 25 at 1:36 a.m. EDT. The 13-day mission will deliver a new crew member and 33,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space Station. The equipment includes science and storage racks, a freezer to store research samples, a new sleeping compartment and the COLBERT treadmill. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett