José Hernández, the first migrant farm worker to travel to space, served as an engineer on the Space Shuttle mission STS-128 in 2009 and attributes his success to his second-grade teacher, who encouraged his education.
He was a migrant farm worker who was rejected by NASA 11 times — then he went to space
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