![]() She reached out to me with an unnecessary apology which I heartily accepted and returned with my own. 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. Later, I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA. 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. I'm a Vietnam vet and not at all offended by the F-word. Recently, it was called to my attention on Twitter that someone was being hired by NASA and that they were using the F-word in a tweet about it. Hickam's post is reproduced in full below: Hickam explained in the since-deleted blog post (an archived version can be seen here) that he didn't mean to get Naomi in trouble when he responded to her tweet, and that he has since reached out to NASA on her behalf. Hickam, a former NASA engineer whose 1998 memoir Rocket Boys served as the basis for the movie October Sky, confirmed that the exchange was real on his web site. So was this exchange real? Did Naomi really lose her internship after insulting a member of the National Space Council? Hickam and Naomi have declined requests for comment from the media. These tweets, as well as the Twitter handle were deleted shortly after this exchange went viral, but a number of news outlets managed to archive them via screenshots.
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