https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/as10-day1-pt2-earthorbit...
Thomas Stafford drops plenty of F-bombs in the Apollo–Soyuz mission transcripts too, which are faithfully recorded in the NASA archives for posterity.
During lunar orbit, they discovered a rogue poop floating in the cabin [1]:
> Stafford: Who did it? (Laughter)
> Cernan: Where did that come from?
> Stafford: Give me a napkin quick, there's a turd floating through the air.
> Young: I didn't do it. It ain't one of mine.
> Cernan: I don't think it's one of mine.
> Stafford: Mine was a little more sticky than that. Throw that away.
> Young: God almighty.
> Stafford: What do you see?
> Young: Nothing, that's enough for me.
> Cernan: Yes.
> Young: Nice going there.
> Cernan: No more turds are going to fit in there.
> Stafford: Is that waste compartment full?
> Young: No, hell; there's nothing in there.
> Cernan: It goes all the way down to the...
> Cernan: Hell, when I got in there, I had to stick my hand in there and [garble] - He put it in the bag, didn't he? You guys been trying to stick it through there with your fingers?
A few more choice quotes [2]:
> Stafford: [Garble] about that ascent stage. You know that? [Garble] son of a bitch [garble] screwed, you know? But that son of a bitch - John?
> Young: [Garble] burn [garble] God. What the hell is this shit? What? What is that crap those things [garble]? [Garble] putting my [garble].
> Young: Oh, what a life, being a spaceman. Wish I could have been a professor or something.
John Young was also the star of another great moment in NASA history, when he smuggled a corned beef sandwich onboard Gemini III [3]:
> Grissom: What is that?
> Young: Corn beef sandwich
> Grissom: Where did that come from?
> Young: I brought it with me. Let's see how it tastes. Smells, doesn't it?
> Grissom: Yes, it's breaking up. I'm going to stick it in my pocket.
> Young: Is it? It was a thought, anyway.
> Grissom: Yep
> Young: Not a very good one.
> Grissom: Pretty good, though, if it would just hold together.
[1] https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/as10-day6-pt28.html
[2] https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap10fj/as10-day6-pt27.html
[3] https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist... (page 45)
I bet you there was some PR person at NASA cussing them out when they heard/saw those too.
As for being faithfully archived, well we already have enough moon landing conspiracists without giving them more "evidence" of stuff being hidden during space missions.
She was selected for a student internship, not for training in the astronaut corps
I'm not saying it's justified, but I don't doubt they're overly cautious by nature and if they have a chance to remove a risk prior to any real investment, they're more likely to take that route.
The real mistake here is was made by a potential intern who was not yet hired. It’s like making a mistake on probation, you likely have very little recourse. It’s completely different for regular civilian employees
And having someone with the demeanor of Cardi B on the team would be bad for their PR mission how?
NASA is obviously acutely aware of how precarious their funding often is, so walks a fine line in an attempt to make the only critique against them purely budgetary and not political. Like it or not, showing too much personality allows one side or the other to start positioning you as a piece for or against their agenda (and of course the other side will take the opposite stance), making it a political issue even if it's ridiculous to think of it as so.
Yet they drew plenty of non-budgetary criticism for rescinding her internship, so it doesn't seem like that worked out for them.
The thing that makes it such and achievement (that it's a select group of exceptional people) is also the thing that puts extra expectations on how you can act or what you can be involved in. It might be better if it were not that way, but the reality is that astronauts are not chosen based on skill and capability alone.