![]() ![]() “I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA. He said that he was annoyed because he didn’t think it was right for someone associated with NASA to be using such foul language. Hickam explained that he was only trying to help her and was absolutely not responsible for her losing the internship. Soon after a lot of people had voiced their support and sympathy for Naomi, NASA apparently gave back Naomi her internship. ![]() However, soon enough some users argued that someone as influential as Hickam who’s a celebrated author, Vietnam veteran, the NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts and the inspiration behind the 1999 film “October Sky,” should have been recognized by Naomi in the first place.Īlso Read: Watch: The Bollywood Movies Which Keep The Patriot In Me Alive What Happened Afterwards People in support of her also pointed out another important fact that it was an honest mistake on Naomi’s part to not know that the Twitter user she was talking to is a former NASA engineer and currently a member of the space council advisory board. ![]() They argued that it was justifiable for Naomi to act the way she did because she was too excited about the NASA internship and wasn’t thinking about how her tweets could reach her future employers. Some people believed it was unfair for Naomi to be sacked off just because of a tweet. to lose her dream internship at NASA.Īfter her tweet, entire Twitter was divided. Naturally, the post went viral very quickly, causing the user, identified as Naomi H. Let’s have a look at the exchange that spanned between these two. Because it reflects who you’re and you might just never know who is seeing it.It’s evident that social media plays a highly dominant role in our lives because recently a Twitter user lost a highly coveted NASA internship because her profanity-laden tweets irked another Twitter user.Īnd absolutely zero points, for guessing that the other “user” was the famed former NASA engineer Homer Hickam. Anyways it’s still advisable to mind the kind of things you put out on your page. “She didn’t go to NASA page to type this. To be fair to her… It was her page,” user Norbert Ifeanyi contended. “Damn… Don’t let over excitement ruin your life,” Kriss Ray wrote. The exchange sparked mixed reactions from other Twitter users. “I have also talked to the folks that had to do with her internship and made absolutely certain that there will be no black mark on her record. “After talking to her and looking at her resume, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I’m doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost,” he added. Naomi reached out with “an unnecessary apology” which Hickam returned with his own, he wrote. “As it turned out, it was due to the NASA hashtag her friends used that called the agency’s attention to it long after my comments were gone.” “This I had nothing to do with nor could I since I do not hire and fire at the agency or have any say on employment whatsoever,” he wrote. He later learned that NASA had rescinded its internship offer to Naomi. “Soon, her friends took umbrage and said a lot of unkind things but long after I was gone as I immediately deleted my comments and blocked all concerned.” ![]() “However, when I saw NASA and the word used together, it occurred to me that this young person might get in trouble if NASA saw it so I tweeted to her one word: ‘Language’ and intended to leave it at that,” he wrote. In a since-deleted blog post that is still available on Google archives, Hickam, a Vietnam vet, wrote that it wasn’t the F-word alone that bugged him. He replied: “And I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA.” She clearly didn’t heed his advice - shooting back, “Suck my d–… I’m working at NASA.” Responding to the tweet, Homer Hickam - the ex- NASA engineer who is renowned for his memoir “Rocket Boys,” which was adapted into the 1999 drama “October Sky” featuring Jake Gyllenhaal - replied with a single word: “Language.” “EVERYONE SHUT THE F–K UP,” she wrote in all caps in the since-deleted tweet that has been captured in reposted screenshots. A would-be NASA intern lost her dream job before it even started - because of a vulgar tweet she unwittingly blasted off at a former agency engineer who’s a member of the National Space Council.Ī woman only identified by her Twitter handle, went on Twitter earlier this week to crow that she had been offered an internship with the national space agency. ![]()
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