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21.05.12

"You are living your future," he would say. "If you don't want to pick cucumbers the rest of your life, you have to go to school." Hernandez listened to his father, who had first crossed the border illegally to work in those fields when he was 15. Soon after that illegal crossing, his father got a permanent resident card and eventually citizenship, as did his mother, Julia.

Hernandez had mastered English well enough by the time he was 17 to be elected high school president. Later, he earned his electrical engineering degree at the University of the Pacific in Stockton and his master's degree at the University of California at Santa Barbara , and worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 14 years.

But he never forgot his dreams of being an astronaut. NASA rejected him 12 years in a row. After each rejection he would study the list of finalists to glean something to make his next application stronger. After one rejection, he learned to fly. After another, he took up scuba diving. He learned to speak Russian after learning of the planned U.S.-Russian partnership on the International Space Station . He started running marathons every year to improve his endurance.

Source: Houston Chronicle