A Nasa intern has dramatically blown her chances of becoming the next great American rocket scientist by telling a veteran engineer to ‘suck my dick and balls’.

A Twitter user known only as @NaomiH_official, who reportedly identifies as a transsexual ‘furry’, was so delighted about landing work experience at Nasa that she tweeted the words: ‘EVERYONE SHUT THE F*** UP.

‘I GOT ACCEPTED FOR A NASA INTERNSHIP.’

Prospective rocket scientist leaves her career in tatters with a very ill-advised message to a member of the National Space Council which oversees Nasa (Picture: Getty)

This is exactly the sort of exchange you don’t want to have with someone who is massively popular in your chosen profession (Credit: Twitter)

This attracted the attention of Homer Hickam, an author, Vietnam veteran, and ex- Nasa engineer who trained Japan’s first astronauts, who tweeted: ‘Language.’


The tweet provoked Naomi to roar: ‘Suck my dick and balls I’m working at Nasa.’



Unfortunately, it turned out the Hickam sits on the National Space Council which oversees Nasa.

The over-enthusiastic Tweeter’s internship offer was then revoked.

This provoked a furious response from other Twitter users, who sought to find evidence of various phobias or prejudices behind Hickam’s ‘Language’ tweet before launching a flurry of personal attacks on Hickam.

‘I feel kind of bad for @naomiH_official,’ tweeted artist Thaily Brimstone.

‘Who wants to get their tone policed by old white men on the internet?

Homer Hickham is a veteran and an experienced Nasa engineer (Credit: Homer Hickham/YouTube)

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‘If @HomerHickam was a professional & objected to the language he could have contacted them privately and asked them to tone it down instead of calling them out publicly.’

Another Twitter user then used the debacle to say: ‘Old white men need to be banned online.’

A Twitter account @gliderhopkin, which is run by someone who describes themselves as a ‘mentally unstable genderfluid fem’ whose ‘furry is a sugar glider’, also wrote to Hickam and said: ‘F*** your self-centered abuse of power over a fucking intern of your employees’ employees

‘If they were a straight white dude you would never have gone that route. F*** you.’

@HomerHickam if you are the nasa guy: you are a fucking narc, loser. Fuck you honestly, for PROFANITY???? u a bitch ass bitch ass BITCH foh dead white dude fuck ya — Fidel Castro (@Hannjob_) August 22, 2018

.@HomerHickam oh you "had nothing to do with her being fired"? you were a judgmental prick and your privilege brought attention to a rando's personal acct. it's completely and utterly your fault. old white men need to be banned online tbh — . (@cactussocks13) August 22, 2018

@homerhickam deserves nothing but ridicule and scorn because that's exactly what he brought to his victims. I encourage everyone to speak out against his abusive practices. If we all act together our voice will speak as loudly as a white male NASA executive shouting down Naomi! — Dead Uncle Kenny (@deadunclekenny) August 23, 2018

Hickam, who had deleted his comments soon after he made them, responded to the abuse by trying to get Naomi her job back.

The former Nasa engineer posted a lengthy statement to his blog which said: ‘I’m a Vietnam vet and not at all offended by the F-word. 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.

‘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.

‘Later, 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.



‘She reached out to me with an unnecessary apology which I heartily accepted and returned with my own. After talking to her, 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. 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.’

Naomi has now shut down her Twitter account following the incident. In the description on her profile, the ex-Nasa intern described herself as ‘a sad engineer who pretends to be a deer on the internet’.

Do you know Naomi? Contact jasper.hamill@metro.co.uk.