Hickam says Naomi’s friends gave him a hard time on Twitter and unfairly accused him of getting Naomi fired. Hickam Says He Is Doing All He Can to Find Naomi a New Job

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.”ģ. 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. Hickam added, “Later, I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA. Hickam says that, as a Vietnam vet, he has plenty of experience with “the f- word” and wasn’t personally offended he says he was just trying to warn Naomi to watch her language in case someone else at NASA saw her use of the #NASA hashtag coupled with the explicit language. The blog post has since been removed, but you can read most of the original on Buzzfeed, here. Hickam wrote a blog post explaining that he had nothing to do with getting Naomi fired.

(One commenter even said that NASA should not have hired someone who didn’t know Hickam’s name.)

Many people online have wondered how Naomi could possibly not know who Hickam was. Hickam is a Vietnam Vet and renowned former NASA engineer the movie October Sky is based on his memoir. Hickam Says He Had Nothing to Do With Getting Naomi FiredĪfter their initial exchange, Naomi took down her offensive tweets and sent a message to Hickam, apologizing. Shortly afterwards, NASA canceled its offer to Naomi.Ģ. Hickam wrote back, “And I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA.” That’s when Naomi went silent. That may have cost Naomi the very internship she was so proud of. Homer Hickam, the NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts, wrote back, “Language.”īut Naomi clearly had no idea who Hickam was, because she replied, “Suck my d*** and b***. She was so excited that she may have forgotten her manners the proud social media user rushed to Twitter where she allegedly wrote, “”Everyone shut the f- up. was pretty excited when she landed an internship with NASA. A furry became an intern for NASA and got instantly fired after telling someone on their council to suck their dick because this is 2018.

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