Reaching for the Stars

An immigrant chronicles his life's journey from the agricultural fields of California to orbiting the Earth aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery . Basis for the film A Million Miles Away starring Michael Peña. Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, José M. Hernández dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. Reaching for the Stars is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut. Hernánd