• some_random_nick@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    It was something like this:

    A: Everybody shut the fuck up I got accepted into NASA

    B: mind your language

    A: fuck you

    B: denys A the scholarship

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        18 days ago

        Someone high up in the chain of command you are trying to join that knows a professional public perception is important when we shot people into space? That type of thing gets taken very seriously by people in the PR world.

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      18 days ago

      Homer didn’t deny anything, he wasn’t even involved in that decision. He even put in a good word for her. However she basically lied when she was asked about it and that dug her in deeper, also leaving the post up didn’t help.

      NASA basically wanted her to not draw controversy to the agency over social media, per their rules, and they normally have a reasonable amount of leeway. But there were a couple concerning things during the process, mistakes she made (that she has probably since grown from) that led to NASA passing on her internship.