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For the uninitiated, the actual context was Naomi used celebratory expletives, the man overseeing the NASA internships asked them to maybe calm down, and the user then told him to "suck my dick I'm going to NASA" before being informed who they were talking to.
I'm paraphrasing a lot here, going off memory.
Before this happened, I actually knew who Homer Hickam was because I had read October Sky, made the whole tweet chain just that slight bit funnier.
The book was called "The Rocket Boys". The movie made from the book was "October Sky". (I honestly like the movie name better, though).
While you're correct, since 1998 the book has been published as October Sky for that very reason. Fun fact, October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys
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