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In the late 1960s and 70s, JosĆ© is a young boy whose family travels from MichoacĆ”n as migrant workers picking grapes in California, his parents hoping to buy a house back home after theyāve made enough money. While they are working in the harvest season, JosĆ© attends school and works in the fields with his family after. His teacher, Ms. Young, notices his potential and visits his parents at home to express her concern over the disruption to his studies by going back and forth as migrant workers. After his father is only paid partial wages for his work, he realizes JosĆ©ās teacher was right to be concerned and the family decides to stay in California full time.
Years later, JosƩ graduates from the University of the Pacific and is hired as an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Feeling as if he needs to fit in better, he trades in his customized 1963 Chevrolet Impala for a used Mazda RX-7. While signing the paperwork, he meets Adela, whom he asks out. After an intimidating first meeting with her family, they see each other more until they marry. They have five kids and JosƩ continues to work successfully at the lab, now instructing the researchers who had previously ignored him.
One day during class, JosĆ©ās boss offers him a chance to join a team going to Russia to evaluate a shipment of enriched uranium the United States is looking to purchase for NASA, noting that a trip like that would look really good on an application to the NASA space program. After several rejections, JosĆ© hand delivers his 12th application in person to Frederick Sturckow who trains incoming astronauts and is a veteran of the Space Shuttle program. He makes a positive impression on Sturckow and is accepted into the program shortly thereafter.
JosĆ© struggles with the training, falling further behind the rest of his class. When he learns of the death of Beto (a cousin and close friend of his), he loses focus and is exhorted by Sturckow to catch up with the rest or he may be dismissed from the program. He later has a conversation with the head trainer, Kalpana Chawla, who describes to him why going to space makes all of their hard work worthwhile, and ends by letting him know sheās been selected as the Mission Specialist for STS-107 on Space Shuttle Columbia.
As JosĆ© sits with his family watching the broadcast of Columbiaās re-entry, they are shaken when news comes in that Columbia didnāt survive. Nevertheless, JosĆ© continues on and begins excelling among his classmates at NASA.
In 2008, Sturckow pulls JosĆ© into a conference room to meet with the selection team, who informs him that heās been chosen to join STS-128 as their Mission Specialist. JosĆ© visits Adelaās restaurant outside the NASA grounds and tells her the news, with his family later watching him at the press conference. He quotes Beto’s words to him that it’s fitting for a migrant farmworker to go into the unknowns of space. As he enters quarantine in preparation for the mission, Adela visits him with a surprise: his former teacher Ms. Young, who tells him sheās been waiting for this moment for over 30 years, having followed his progress and career, always believing in his enormous potential.
The launch day finally arrives, JosĆ© is prepared along with the rest of the crew who board the shuttle, and launch into orbit. After main engine cutoff, JosĆ© looks around at the shuttle cabin and imagines seeing the same Monarch Butterfly that landed on his dadās arm the day their family decided to stay in California, hinting that he had achieved his destiny.
Closing titles note that Mission STS 128 remained on board the International Space Station for 13 days, and that JosĆ© had tacos and listened to JosĆ© Alfredo JimĆ©nezās āEl Hijo del Puebloā while there. JosĆ© was the first migrant farmworker in space, and still picks grapes with his father today, albeit in his own vineyard: Tierra Luna Cellars in Lodi, California.
