When Stefanie Gordon boarded her plane in New York City to visit her parents in Palm Beach, the captain noted there was a chance passengers would witness the space shuttle Endeavour's last launch during the flight. But she never expected to play a role in documenting it. 
 
 As the plane descended toward Palm Beach and the Endeavour's launch became visible, Gordon pulled out her iPhone and snapped a few photos and a short video. On the ground, she posted one of the photos to her then 1,800 Twitter followers. 
 
 In a few hours, she was fielding phone calls from ABC, the BBC and CNBC. She had accumulated about 1,000 new Twitter followers, and she had to turn the @mention push notifications off on her phone so they wouldn't drain the battery. 
 
 "I don't have that many Twitter followers, and I basically tweet about sports," Gordon tells Mashable. "I really didn't expect it to go as viral as it did." 
 
 Although other people on the plane also took photos, the 33-year-old event planner says it seems that she's the only one who posted them to Twitter. 
 
 "To be able to see the last shuttle launch of the Endeavour was awe inspiring, and to have a different view of it was just amazing," she says. 
 
 The new Twitter friends aren't bad either. Gordon, who is looking for a job, recently tweeted her LinkedIn resume — just in case chance continues to work in her favor. ||||| CLOSE A woman reportedly lost out on an internship with NASA over her expletive-filled tweets about nabbing the position. This video contains language that some might find offensive. Buzz60 
 
 The NASA logo on a protective box for a camera near the space shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2011. (Photo: Stan Honda, AFP/Getty Images) 
 
 A woman may have lost a highly coveted NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter. That user? Famed former NASA engineer and current space council adviser Homer Hickam. 
 
 The exchange, reportedly captured in screenshots that rocketed across social media, began when a user identified as Naomi H. (@NaomiH_official) made an announcement to the world: 
 
 "Everyone shut the f--- up," she tweeted, Newsweek and Buzzfeed News report, citing images of since-removed tweets. "I got accepted for a NASA internship." 
 
 
 
 After a Twitter user notes Naomi's "language," Naomi replies with a sexually vulgar tweet not at all suitable for publication. "I'm working at NASA," Naomi concludes. 
 
 The user Naomi told off is Homer Hickam, the former NASA engineer and inspiration of the 1999 film "October Sky," based on his memoir. 
 
 "And I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA," Hickam replies, referencing his appointment to the advisory group earlier this year. 
 
 Homer Hickam, whose autobiographical book "Rocket Boys" was made into the movie "October Sky." (Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS) 
 
 "Later, I learned she had lost her offer for an internship with NASA," Hickam said Tuesday in a post on his blog, according to Newsweek. (The post appeared to be deleted as of Wednesday, though it still appeared archived on Google.) 
 
 In the post, Hickam said he takes no offense at the 'f-word,' but sought to warn her that NASA might. And while Hickam did not seek to influence the internship and had no authority to do so, according to the post, use of the NASA hashtag later alerted the agency to the irreverent tweets. 
 
 Naomi and Hickam later exchanged apologies, according to the blog, and Hickam, citing her resume, is now doing "all I can" to secure her a role in the aerospace industry. 
 
 Hickam declined to comment on the matter in an email to USA TODAY, and Naomi had made her tweets private as of Wednesday. Her bio: "Taking a break from Twitter for a while." 
 
 NASA was not immediately available to offer comment. 
 
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– When Stefanie Gordon tweeted a picture she took from her airplane window, she never expected it to get her interview requests from just about every major news outlet and a retweet by NASA. But that’s exactly what happened—since Gordon happened to be on a flight to Palm Beach from which the Endeavour launch was visible. Gordon posted a few TwitPics and a video; next thing you know, she was fielding calls from reporters and had 1,000 new Twitter followers in a few hours. She tells Mashable other people on the plane took pictures, but apparently, she was the only one to tweet hers.