She probably got that position because she's a woman anyway. More qualified and intelligent men can take that job.
>someone with less power than me told me to suck their dick? I clearly must destroy their lives
I get it, I suppose it sucks for your ego if that happens, but destroying her life by fricking firing her is hardly a just or humane response. if anything he's as idiot as she is, just with more power. there's nothing cool or funny in the story, it's just two primitive people doing primitive shit
No, it's more like: >Someone is representing our organization online while acting like a foul-mouthed buffoon who openly disrespects people within our organization? I clearly do not want them working for us.
That's why you don't put your real name on social media or talk about the company you work for. As soon as you start doing those things, you're representing that company publicly and they will get rid of you if you're making them look bad.
this is not that tho. and it's not a civilized way of fixing the issue. you could take it out of her pay, have some coercive action and see what happens. if she continues then you fire her. because she's clearly moronic and won't stop.
they way it's been handled allows for no fricking mistakes, which in turn translates to people going along with horrible putrid foul shit just to make sure they get a chance or don't frick things up.
it's a primitive chimp moronic way of dealing with a solution, that senior monkey should be ashamed of acting like that in response. he fully abused his fricking power for a petty shit. I hate weak people like that
2 months ago
Anonymous
me
humans are not robots, humans frick up. not allowing for benign frickups like that just takes away from your humanity. you took away her future for fricking words, once. I don't want to live in a world like this so I disagree with their solution.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>you took away her future for fricking words, once.
Twice. He responded to her first tweet and asked her to watch her language. She could have clicked on his profile, seen who he was, apologized, and moved on. Instead she escalated it further by telling him to suck her dick. Do you really want someone who responds to criticism with instant, unthinking, disproportionate escalation working for you?
2 months ago
Anonymous
>She could have clicked on his profile
nah, it would have been really moronic if she continued after finding out who he was. that whole "language" bullshit is fully on fricking him and his small fricking petty world. the internet is not his fricking lab.
he could have introduced himself without expecting people to magically check who he is. "hello I'm so and so from NASA and we don't tolerate this behavior because it ruins our internal values" whatever the frick. if she would have pissed him off after that sure, she's clearly an idiot. she was just fricking happy and some old fossil is saying "Language."
2 months ago
Anonymous
You sound like you're still in high school and have never had a job. You'll understand when you're older and have some life experience. Hopefully you'll understand before something similar happens to you.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>WAAH MY ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES WAAH, HOW COULD THIS BE
No, you are wrong, this is not the fault of the nasa dude, but the fact that all these homosexual kids have been raised up without getting punched in the mouth for their shitty homosexual behaviour, so they think they can keep acting like homosexuals until something like this happens
2 months ago
Anonymous
>t. bootlicking homosexual
weak piece of shit
2 months ago
Anonymous
Maybe you shouldn't apply for a job that demands you do what they want, then
2 months ago
Anonymous
>never display emotion
that leads to fricking dystopia because of the weaknesses and power trips of some old farts. you're fricking idiots if you see that as fricking based. NASA is based, but for completely different reasons than this one.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Being a self-absorbed narcissist making moronic twitter posts is the worst possible way you could "display emotions"
2 months ago
Anonymous
>narcissist
funny you mention this word since the dude was all like "don't you even know who's speaking to you b***h????" lmao you can't make this shit up
2 months ago
Anonymous
Being a self-absorbed narcissist making moronic twitter posts is the worst possible way you could "display emotions"
And remember, you are free to display emotions, but so are they, and as it just so happens their emotion is to fire you for displaying emotions of a moronic homosexual
2 months ago
Anonymous
Firing people is not an emotion, moron, I bet you think its just a display of emotion to murder someone who calls you the n word too.
2 months ago
Anonymous
If these are your (intentionally public on social media) expressions of emotion upon something good happening to you, you should be fricking curbstomped.
>narcissist
funny you mention this word since the dude was all like "don't you even know who's speaking to you b***h????" lmao you can't make this shit up
>try to help someone fricking things up for themselves at a company you manage and have a storied history with >REEEE >explain why you are trying to help them >end up helping them in the end >some furry homosexual israelite on IQfy seethes about it because you're le white male
Eat shit moron.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Eat shit moron.
Language.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>you could take it out of her pay
Interns aren't paid. >have some coercive action and see what happens. if she continues then you fire her. because she's clearly moronic and won't stop.
She was only just hired. Every job I've ever had involved some probationary period (usually 90 or 120 days, sometimes as long as 6-12 months) wherein an employee is subject to much higher scrutiny. If someone you just hired fricks up badly, it's much easier to just let them go and try again. It's not until you've been with a company for a while that you get treated with the benefit of the doubt because you're much harder to replace at that point. But someone who was just hired yesterday that you've invested barely any time or money into training is very easy to let go, and she was probably just replaced by the next in line candidate so they wouldn't even have to redo the interview process or anything like that.
tl;dr - If a new hire is a dumb c**t you can just send her home and take the next candidate in line who isn't a dumb c**t. Far less risk involved compared to giving second chances.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Interns aren't paid.
We don't need any input from old timey morons who have clearly been left behind and don't know how current century internships work.
He doesn't work for NASA and he didn't get her fired. He tried to do damage control for her with NASA but the agency decided on its own to fire her. Just because the NSC oversees NASA doesn't give members power to make personnel decisions for the agency.
>"I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA.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. 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," Hickam wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
>Hickam also shared that he is "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," and has "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."
2 months ago
Anonymous
cool
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Hickam
who's he tho, I suppose he's known amongst rocket nerds?
2 months ago
Anonymous
See:
https://i.imgur.com/0sU3liB.jpeg
based NASA
moron.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I asked in the sense of what has he done, as an engineer, projects he worked on that kind of thing. not what job he has now. says there he's an engineer, must have done something in that domain in his earlier life isn't it? moron
2 months ago
Anonymous
>says there he's an engineer
Where? Not in any of the text I quoted.
2 months ago
Anonymous
how fricking gorilla moron are you tho? it's in the fricking OP picrel, you quoted OP you lazy ass moron you didn't even read the bottom part
2 months ago
Anonymous
Okay, but who cares? Him being on the council is what's relevant.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I was curious what he done as engineer. NASA engineers usually work on cool shit.
Who the frick tells their boss to go suck their dick and balls and gets to keep their job? Jesus chrisr man some of you "scientists" have no fricking social antennaes. The anti-social incel autist meme is real
who tf is him tho? it's not like you get hired at SpaceX and Elon Musk is telling you to watch your language. sure if you go to SpaceX and have no clue who Elon is that's on you.
but that dude ain't no Elon Musk nobody heard of his ass
It doesn't matter who he is. If you publicly post profanities you deserve to lose your job, especially if you mention your employer in the same fricking post. You represent the company you work for and you ought behave as such.
It's only one anon who's clearly 16 years old and going through his idealistic phase of thinking public perception of a person should never impact anything.
I believe he was in the right of saying something but he did it in the wrong way.
you stupid motherfrickers think in binary, you don't fricking see shades. that is staple dimwit behavior.
I don't think he did anything wrong, she should have learned some self-control and proper public behavior well before college. How she acted was grossly inappropriate.
2 months ago
Anonymous
the whole world selects for wienersucking first and foremost, frick skillz, motherfricker you better learn how to suck wiener. that's what really fricking matters, learn to spread your cheeks when some moron "boss" wants to frick your ass. skills don't matter
2 months ago
Anonymous
Interns are the bottom rung of the ladder and in no position to demand others suck their dick and balls. She should have waited until she was at least a team lead to make such a demand.
2 months ago
Anonymous
It's necessary to present yourself in a professional manner and not to be unnecessarily aggressive, abrasive, and offensive toward others. Why would you want an abrasive, vulgar person who aggressively attacks anyone who presents simple criticism toward them? Further, why would you want such a person publicly representing your organization?
2 months ago
Anonymous
she wasn't at fricking work yelling in a NASA hangar streaming it on twitch or something. she had a natural human emotion in public. she wasn't particularly foul. >everyone shut the frick up I got accepted at NASA!
that's the most benign "foul" shit you could say as a normal human being. pretty sure everyone's farts at NASA smell at least as foul as her's. hate this piece of shit fake posturing hiding the need to have power trips like that
2 months ago
Anonymous
That's literally the opposite of benign lol. You must moronic.
2 months ago
Anonymous
I think it's a culture thing.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Of course it is benign, how exactly do you think someone got hurt by someone else saying frick?
2 months ago
Anonymous
She made a vulgar statement while representing a public organization. Like it or not, when you say you work for a company anything you then say in that same moment reflects on that company. But she didn't stop there, when politely asked to watch her language she doubled down on the vulgarity and turned it into a direct attack, all without taking even ONE SECOND to check who she was talking to. I wouldn't want someone that flippantly reactive and abrasive to work for me.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>I'm unable to keep a job >Is it me? >No, it's employers who have an -ism
You're going to have a miserable life and constantly be upset about how everything is unfair to you.
This is where you lie about your life and make up a bunch of crap to deny how fricked up it is due to your own actions.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>you need to suck wiener for money
I'm not a bawd like you
2 months ago
Anonymous
You'll grow out of this edgy vulgarity soon enough, I'm sure.
2 months ago
Anonymous
why are you offended on IQfy anon?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Where did I say I'm offended?
2 months ago
Anonymous
what do you mean, you literally called it "edgy vulgarity" who fricking talks like that you boomer
2 months ago
Anonymous
I don't have to be personally offended to acknowledge how vulgar you're being.
2 months ago
Anonymous
so then, no NASA for me?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Let's be real, no NASA for anybody here. Might be able to get on with SpinLaunch until they run out of money.
>Hickam served six years in the U.S. Army[8] and was honorably discharged at the rank of captain in 1970.[9][10] He served in the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968 as a first lieutenant and combat engineer with C Company, 704th Maintenance Battalion, 4th Infantry Division.[11][8] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and Army Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.[12] >Following his separation from the service, Hickam worked as an engineer for the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command from 1971 to 1978, assigned to Huntsville.[8] Between 1978 and 1981, he was an engineer for the 7th Army Training Command in Germany.[13] >Hickam began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. His specialties included training astronauts in regard to science payloads and extra-vehicular activities (EVA). Additionally, Hickam assisted at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator as a diver where astronaut crews trained for numerous Spacelab and Space Shuttle missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment, the first two Hubble repair missions, Spacelab-J (with the first Japanese astronauts), and the Solar Max repair mission.[3][14] Prior to his retirement from NASA in 1998, Hickam was the payload training manager for the International Space Station program.[14]
>Homer Hickam, a former NASA engineer, current member of the National Space Council, and inspiration for the movie October Sky, which was based on his memoir Rocket Boys, happened to see the tweet. "I'm a Vietnam vet and not at all offended by the F-word," Hickam explained later in a blog post which has apparently been taken down but is still archived here. "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." And so, he tweeted her a one-word warning: "Language."
>In May 2013, Hickam opposed a zero tolerance policy at Bartow High School which resulted in the expulsion of a student whose science experiment had caused a small explosion.
makes the whole twitter deal even more ironic, in a sense.
>Once Hickam explained who he was, Naomi H may have realized she'd made an error. (Since then, she appears to have made her Twitter account private.) Unfortunately, some of her well-meaning friends apparently jumped in to defend her. Hickam merely notes that they "said a lot of unkind things," although, if their everyday use of language is similar to hers, it seems likely their comments were equally profane. But--and here's the dumbest part of this very dumb story--they used the hashtag #NASA in their messages to Hickam. >It may well be that up until that moment no NASA official was aware of the exchange. But NASA employees do pay attention to the #NASA hashtag, as one might expect. They saw the conversation. And, according to Hickam's blog post, they decided to revoke Naomi H's internship because of it. Hickam goes out of his way to note that he had nothing to with this--and could not have had anything to do with it because he has no direct involvement in hiring or firing. He also writes that the young woman reached out to him with what he terms an unnecessary apology. He says he apologized in turn and, after speaking to Naomi H and reviewing her résumé?, has concluded that she deserves a good job in aerospace and is working to help her get one. He also says he contacted NASA to make sure there is no black mark on her record. He even says she can re-apply for an internship if she wants.
Reading the flight transcripts, there are some words censored with a comment to the crew from the flight director reminding them they were on an open mic. There are also a few times where the say they're muting the radio and going to tape.
Also, Gene Cernan was a nervous nelly during Apollo 10 and he was indeed cursing a blue streak, flip through the transcript.. Son of a b***h this, shit that, goddamnit the other thing. At one point he's working through the checklist somewhere in the middle and he says "Jesus Christ, they'll kill us yet." And then his worst nightmare comes true when they briefly lose control of Snoopy during staging while Tom coolly gets them out of gimbal lock. The two are miscommunicating somewhat. I was always kind of amazed that Gene Cernan got one more mission based on what I read from the transcripts and that mishap. Also he had a horrible time during his Gemini EVA, called it his EVA from hell, suit all fogged up, struggling terribly just to move around.
Holy shit, this is real
https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-lost-a-nasa-scholarship-over-a-series-of-profanity-laden-tweets-2018-8
>furry dp
People high neuroticism do this to themselves. They can't keep their mouth shut.
>someone with less power than me told me to suck their dick? I clearly must destroy their lives
I get it, I suppose it sucks for your ego if that happens, but destroying her life by fricking firing her is hardly a just or humane response. if anything he's as idiot as she is, just with more power. there's nothing cool or funny in the story, it's just two primitive people doing primitive shit
No, it's more like:
>Someone is representing our organization online while acting like a foul-mouthed buffoon who openly disrespects people within our organization? I clearly do not want them working for us.
That's why you don't put your real name on social media or talk about the company you work for. As soon as you start doing those things, you're representing that company publicly and they will get rid of you if you're making them look bad.
this is not that tho. and it's not a civilized way of fixing the issue. you could take it out of her pay, have some coercive action and see what happens. if she continues then you fire her. because she's clearly moronic and won't stop.
they way it's been handled allows for no fricking mistakes, which in turn translates to people going along with horrible putrid foul shit just to make sure they get a chance or don't frick things up.
it's a primitive chimp moronic way of dealing with a solution, that senior monkey should be ashamed of acting like that in response. he fully abused his fricking power for a petty shit. I hate weak people like that
me
humans are not robots, humans frick up. not allowing for benign frickups like that just takes away from your humanity. you took away her future for fricking words, once. I don't want to live in a world like this so I disagree with their solution.
>you took away her future for fricking words, once.
Twice. He responded to her first tweet and asked her to watch her language. She could have clicked on his profile, seen who he was, apologized, and moved on. Instead she escalated it further by telling him to suck her dick. Do you really want someone who responds to criticism with instant, unthinking, disproportionate escalation working for you?
>She could have clicked on his profile
nah, it would have been really moronic if she continued after finding out who he was. that whole "language" bullshit is fully on fricking him and his small fricking petty world. the internet is not his fricking lab.
he could have introduced himself without expecting people to magically check who he is. "hello I'm so and so from NASA and we don't tolerate this behavior because it ruins our internal values" whatever the frick. if she would have pissed him off after that sure, she's clearly an idiot. she was just fricking happy and some old fossil is saying "Language."
You sound like you're still in high school and have never had a job. You'll understand when you're older and have some life experience. Hopefully you'll understand before something similar happens to you.
>WAAH MY ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES WAAH, HOW COULD THIS BE
No, you are wrong, this is not the fault of the nasa dude, but the fact that all these homosexual kids have been raised up without getting punched in the mouth for their shitty homosexual behaviour, so they think they can keep acting like homosexuals until something like this happens
>t. bootlicking homosexual
weak piece of shit
Maybe you shouldn't apply for a job that demands you do what they want, then
>never display emotion
that leads to fricking dystopia because of the weaknesses and power trips of some old farts. you're fricking idiots if you see that as fricking based. NASA is based, but for completely different reasons than this one.
Being a self-absorbed narcissist making moronic twitter posts is the worst possible way you could "display emotions"
>narcissist
funny you mention this word since the dude was all like "don't you even know who's speaking to you b***h????" lmao you can't make this shit up
And remember, you are free to display emotions, but so are they, and as it just so happens their emotion is to fire you for displaying emotions of a moronic homosexual
Firing people is not an emotion, moron, I bet you think its just a display of emotion to murder someone who calls you the n word too.
If these are your (intentionally public on social media) expressions of emotion upon something good happening to you, you should be fricking curbstomped.
>try to help someone fricking things up for themselves at a company you manage and have a storied history with
>REEEE
>explain why you are trying to help them
>end up helping them in the end
>some furry homosexual israelite on IQfy seethes about it because you're le white male
Eat shit moron.
>Eat shit moron.
Language.
>you could take it out of her pay
Interns aren't paid.
>have some coercive action and see what happens. if she continues then you fire her. because she's clearly moronic and won't stop.
She was only just hired. Every job I've ever had involved some probationary period (usually 90 or 120 days, sometimes as long as 6-12 months) wherein an employee is subject to much higher scrutiny. If someone you just hired fricks up badly, it's much easier to just let them go and try again. It's not until you've been with a company for a while that you get treated with the benefit of the doubt because you're much harder to replace at that point. But someone who was just hired yesterday that you've invested barely any time or money into training is very easy to let go, and she was probably just replaced by the next in line candidate so they wouldn't even have to redo the interview process or anything like that.
tl;dr - If a new hire is a dumb c**t you can just send her home and take the next candidate in line who isn't a dumb c**t. Far less risk involved compared to giving second chances.
>Interns aren't paid.
We don't need any input from old timey morons who have clearly been left behind and don't know how current century internships work.
Oh no, the employer demands the upholding of morals and exemplary behaviour from their employees?!?! Those heckin racist, sexist, homophobic chuds!!
>insult boss
>get fired
>WTF THAT'S INHUMAINE!!!
bro he acted like every burger police abuse video. he fully escalated by the way he handled it.
>respec my autoritah!
Employment retaliation is illegal for something that is legally protected like freedom of speech.
Cool, I'm sure you'll be able to prosecute it
Not even close to being true.
>t. girl with dick and balls
if she had said Black person would you support her being fired?
dude didn't introduced himself as speaking on behalf of NASA, he escalated the situation like a frustrated narcissistic prick that he is
answer the question tho
He doesn't work for NASA and he didn't get her fired. He tried to do damage control for her with NASA but the agency decided on its own to fire her. Just because the NSC oversees NASA doesn't give members power to make personnel decisions for the agency.
Literally in the exact same source you posted:
>But it turns out that Naomi didn't lose her internship because of her language in the tweet at all.
okayy so why did she lose it?
The article is RIGHT THERE
>"I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA.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. 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," Hickam wrote in a blog post Tuesday.
>Hickam also shared that he is "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," and has "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."
cool
>Hickam
who's he tho, I suppose he's known amongst rocket nerds?
See:
moron.
I asked in the sense of what has he done, as an engineer, projects he worked on that kind of thing. not what job he has now. says there he's an engineer, must have done something in that domain in his earlier life isn't it? moron
>says there he's an engineer
Where? Not in any of the text I quoted.
how fricking gorilla moron are you tho? it's in the fricking OP picrel, you quoted OP you lazy ass moron you didn't even read the bottom part
Okay, but who cares? Him being on the council is what's relevant.
I was curious what he done as engineer. NASA engineers usually work on cool shit.
I don't know, go look him up if you want to know.
Old news Hickam made sure xhe still got the position and is xhis friend or whatever, old man is just another twittergay now
Even redditgays don't like this piece of work
She probably got that position because she's a woman anyway. More qualified and intelligent men can take that job.
>Even redditgays don't like this piece of work
You people always think you're so different.
Women moment
What sort of girl has balls and dick
Good. Homo.
OoooOOoooOOooOooOo
Where do you think you are sir
I did some digging and the supposed "girl" seems to be a troony and a diversity hire
A >girl
What a way to ruin your future.
it's just like with the basilisk thing. people are moronic that way
she later apologized and got her internship back btw. there is no justice
Well i disagree with reddit
Who the frick tells their boss to go suck their dick and balls and gets to keep their job? Jesus chrisr man some of you "scientists" have no fricking social antennaes. The anti-social incel autist meme is real
who tf is him tho? it's not like you get hired at SpaceX and Elon Musk is telling you to watch your language. sure if you go to SpaceX and have no clue who Elon is that's on you.
but that dude ain't no Elon Musk nobody heard of his ass
It doesn't matter who he is. If you publicly post profanities you deserve to lose your job, especially if you mention your employer in the same fricking post. You represent the company you work for and you ought behave as such.
>but that dude ain't no Elon Musk nobody heard of his ass
There was literally a movie about him moron
sure but it's a boomer movie and "she" is a zoomer furry
It's only one anon who's clearly 16 years old and going through his idealistic phase of thinking public perception of a person should never impact anything.
I believe he was in the right of saying something but he did it in the wrong way.
you stupid motherfrickers think in binary, you don't fricking see shades. that is staple dimwit behavior.
I don't think he did anything wrong, she should have learned some self-control and proper public behavior well before college. How she acted was grossly inappropriate.
the whole world selects for wienersucking first and foremost, frick skillz, motherfricker you better learn how to suck wiener. that's what really fricking matters, learn to spread your cheeks when some moron "boss" wants to frick your ass. skills don't matter
Interns are the bottom rung of the ladder and in no position to demand others suck their dick and balls. She should have waited until she was at least a team lead to make such a demand.
It's necessary to present yourself in a professional manner and not to be unnecessarily aggressive, abrasive, and offensive toward others. Why would you want an abrasive, vulgar person who aggressively attacks anyone who presents simple criticism toward them? Further, why would you want such a person publicly representing your organization?
she wasn't at fricking work yelling in a NASA hangar streaming it on twitch or something. she had a natural human emotion in public. she wasn't particularly foul.
>everyone shut the frick up I got accepted at NASA!
that's the most benign "foul" shit you could say as a normal human being. pretty sure everyone's farts at NASA smell at least as foul as her's. hate this piece of shit fake posturing hiding the need to have power trips like that
That's literally the opposite of benign lol. You must moronic.
I think it's a culture thing.
Of course it is benign, how exactly do you think someone got hurt by someone else saying frick?
She made a vulgar statement while representing a public organization. Like it or not, when you say you work for a company anything you then say in that same moment reflects on that company. But she didn't stop there, when politely asked to watch her language she doubled down on the vulgarity and turned it into a direct attack, all without taking even ONE SECOND to check who she was talking to. I wouldn't want someone that flippantly reactive and abrasive to work for me.
>I'm unable to keep a job
>Is it me?
>No, it's employers who have an -ism
You're going to have a miserable life and constantly be upset about how everything is unfair to you.
This is where you lie about your life and make up a bunch of crap to deny how fricked up it is due to your own actions.
>you need to suck wiener for money
I'm not a bawd like you
You'll grow out of this edgy vulgarity soon enough, I'm sure.
why are you offended on IQfy anon?
Where did I say I'm offended?
what do you mean, you literally called it "edgy vulgarity" who fricking talks like that you boomer
I don't have to be personally offended to acknowledge how vulgar you're being.
so then, no NASA for me?
Let's be real, no NASA for anybody here. Might be able to get on with SpinLaunch until they run out of money.
Homer felt bad about her losing her internship and got her a job at an aerospace company instead.
NASA has not done anything for 40 years. Not surprising they shunned someone who expressed genuine excitement.
why do burgers feel the need to keep an online diary for everyone to read?
>Hickam served six years in the U.S. Army[8] and was honorably discharged at the rank of captain in 1970.[9][10] He served in the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968 as a first lieutenant and combat engineer with C Company, 704th Maintenance Battalion, 4th Infantry Division.[11][8] He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal, and Army Meritorious Unit Commendation ribbon.[12]
>Following his separation from the service, Hickam worked as an engineer for the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command from 1971 to 1978, assigned to Huntsville.[8] Between 1978 and 1981, he was an engineer for the 7th Army Training Command in Germany.[13]
>Hickam began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. His specialties included training astronauts in regard to science payloads and extra-vehicular activities (EVA). Additionally, Hickam assisted at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator as a diver where astronaut crews trained for numerous Spacelab and Space Shuttle missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope deployment, the first two Hubble repair missions, Spacelab-J (with the first Japanese astronauts), and the Solar Max repair mission.[3][14] Prior to his retirement from NASA in 1998, Hickam was the payload training manager for the International Space Station program.[14]
dude has seen and done some shit.
>Homer Hickam, a former NASA engineer, current member of the National Space Council, and inspiration for the movie October Sky, which was based on his memoir Rocket Boys, happened to see the tweet. "I'm a Vietnam vet and not at all offended by the F-word," Hickam explained later in a blog post which has apparently been taken down but is still archived here. "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." And so, he tweeted her a one-word warning: "Language."
October Sky is a good movie, there I said it.
>In May 2013, Hickam opposed a zero tolerance policy at Bartow High School which resulted in the expulsion of a student whose science experiment had caused a small explosion.
makes the whole twitter deal even more ironic, in a sense.
has a decent imdb rating. might watch it
>Once Hickam explained who he was, Naomi H may have realized she'd made an error. (Since then, she appears to have made her Twitter account private.) Unfortunately, some of her well-meaning friends apparently jumped in to defend her. Hickam merely notes that they "said a lot of unkind things," although, if their everyday use of language is similar to hers, it seems likely their comments were equally profane. But--and here's the dumbest part of this very dumb story--they used the hashtag #NASA in their messages to Hickam.
>It may well be that up until that moment no NASA official was aware of the exchange. But NASA employees do pay attention to the #NASA hashtag, as one might expect. They saw the conversation. And, according to Hickam's blog post, they decided to revoke Naomi H's internship because of it. Hickam goes out of his way to note that he had nothing to with this--and could not have had anything to do with it because he has no direct involvement in hiring or firing. He also writes that the young woman reached out to him with what he terms an unnecessary apology. He says he apologized in turn and, after speaking to Naomi H and reviewing her résumé?, has concluded that she deserves a good job in aerospace and is working to help her get one. He also says he contacted NASA to make sure there is no black mark on her record. He even says she can re-apply for an internship if she wants.
I really wish I could read the friends' replies.
I bet all those Apollo-era NASA guys were cursing like sailors when the mics were off.
Reading the flight transcripts, there are some words censored with a comment to the crew from the flight director reminding them they were on an open mic. There are also a few times where the say they're muting the radio and going to tape.
Also, Gene Cernan was a nervous nelly during Apollo 10 and he was indeed cursing a blue streak, flip through the transcript.. Son of a b***h this, shit that, goddamnit the other thing. At one point he's working through the checklist somewhere in the middle and he says "Jesus Christ, they'll kill us yet." And then his worst nightmare comes true when they briefly lose control of Snoopy during staging while Tom coolly gets them out of gimbal lock. The two are miscommunicating somewhat. I was always kind of amazed that Gene Cernan got one more mission based on what I read from the transcripts and that mishap. Also he had a horrible time during his Gemini EVA, called it his EVA from hell, suit all fogged up, struggling terribly just to move around.
Are you people fricking moronic? This shit is ANCIENT
Isnt NASA like reddit headquarters? Dont they know space isnt real.