September 30, 2014 11:58 am

Jose Hernandez, Migrant-Turned-Astronaut, Has Middle School Named for Him in San Jose

When he was a young boy, he worked alongside his family with other farmworkers in California, moving from one town to another. When he was a grown man, Jose Hernandez became an astronaut. On Tuesday, an east San Jose charter middle school dedicated a campus after Hernandez, as an example to the many Latino students who go there that a man with humble, migrant, Michoacan-root beginnings can literally reach the stars. Bob Redell reports.

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