How did she manage to land a job as an MLB team manager after a NASA internship?

I had read October Sky

The book was called "The Rocket Boys". The movie made from the book was "October Sky". (I honestly like the movie name better, though).

I was just googling him to see if he was the October sky guy.

sixteen minutes of fame

To be fair, she’s more famous now than the vast majority of NASA employees

Pretty fucked up they harassed Hickam to the point that he removed his own blog page defending them.

Thank you for those links. I hadn't heard of this before and it was a hell of a ride.

For everyone else, the TL;DL of the podcast (which you should listen to!) is that Naomi is good now, she works in the aerospace industry ("commercial jet engine stuff"), and she still cusses a fuckton. She did not get back her NASA internship after that incident. I don't think she mentioned in the interview exactly how she got back in the industry, all she said is: "I took such a roundabout way to get back into it", and then the conversation was sidetracked by BOEING KILLED A GUY!

💌 A paragon of proper Internet behaviour right here.

Thanks for the pod-recommend. Never heard of this one.

In-depth update from last year: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame-172216473/episode/suck-my-dick-and-balls-i-198420059/