Roys Lecture: Astronaut Jose Hernandez

Jose Hernandez, a former migrant worker turned engineer and NASA astronaut, will present the 2019 Lawrence H. Roys Lecture. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Hernandez traveled more than 5.7 million miles in under two weeks on the Space Shuttle Mission STS-128, where he oversaw the transfer of more than 18,000 pounds of equipment between the shuttle and International Space Station, and helped with robotics operations. Earlier in his career, Hernandez spent 15 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he co-developed the first full-field digital mammography imaging system.

Hernandez is the author of "Reaching for the Stars" and a bilingual children’s book “The Boy Who Touched the Stars, El Niño Que Alcanzó las Estrellas.”

The Lawrence H. Roys Endowment at Augustana College honors the memory of Lawrence Roys as an engineer, businessman and nationally acclaimed natural scientist. Throughout his lifetime, Roys frequently presented lectures at Augustana on his studies of Mayan architecture in Central America. The Roys Endowment funds lectures by visiting scholars in the field of natural science.