He studied at the Universidad del Pacífico and did a master’s degree in Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is one of four children in a Mexican family and he learned English until he was 12 years old.Īlmost all of his childhood was spent traveling every March from Mexico to California and they worked harvesting strawberries and cucumbers, ” some children may think it is fun to travel like this, but it was not vacations, we had to work “, said José in an interview published by the NASA. With his family, José Hernández traveled from Mexico to the United States to work in the fields. José was a teenager when he heard on the radio that Frank Chang-Díaz became the first Hispanic NASA astronaut and no American ancestry, ” that was the moment I said: I want to fly through space .”
😵- Alejandra Márquez Abella NovemWHO IS JOSÉ HERNÁNDEZ? Lo más chingón de todo ha sido tener conversaciones profundas con un ASTRONAUTA.