NASA astronaut Jose Hernandez, back on Earth after competing the STS-128 shuttle mission to the ISS earlier this month, is contemplating his future, a Stockton (Calif.) Record article today notes. He tells his hometown paper that he hopes to get assigned “to a space mission aboard a Russian aircraft”, which is likely the paper garbling a desire tto go to the ISS on a Soyuz mission. The paper adds something interesting, though: “He also is contemplating a political career to represent the Stockton area in Congress.”
While it’s not clear how far off his political career might be, he’s gotten involved in one hot-button issue recently. After landing, Hernandez told Mexican television he thought that undocumented workers in the US should be granted legal status: a rare public stance on a political issue by an active astronaut. “I work for the US government, but as an individual I have a right to my personal opinions,” he told a Mexican television show after his comments generated a minor controversy, as the Los Angeles Times reported.
hola,
es para mi privilegio poder escribirle a alguien kmo usted y saludarlo, soy mexicano y vivo en ajijic un pueblo de jalisco donde por cierto hay mas extranjeros que mexicanos bueno el motivo de la presente es saludarle y decirle k usted es un ejemplo de perseverancia y de k cuando se kiere se puede, yo adopte a 4 niños indigenas de los cuales 3 estan estudiando aun, y les platico de usted, diciendoles que es un ejemplo para los mexicanos y eso me ayuda a seguir adelante.
gracias por ser un mexicano ejemplar
In a non space related topic…Hernandez is just stating what is eventually going to happen anyway.
As for Congress…go for it…what district in CA is that?
Robert G. Oler
Oh brother. No. No more illegals. We can’t afford it.