US EditionEx-Wife of NASA Astronaut Pleads Guilty to Lying in First Alleged 'Crime in Space' Case
Summer Heather Worden pleaded guilty to lying about her 2019 claim that astronaut Anne McClain illegally accessed her bank account from the International Space Station amid a custody dispute.
- A former Air Force officer pleaded guilty to lying about her estranged astronaut wife illegally accessing her bank account from the International Space Station.
- Summer Worden, 50, was accused of falsely claiming that Anne McClain had guessed her password and illegally accessed her bank account while aboard the ISS for six months in 2019.
- Worden faces a maximum possible sentence of up to five years in prison for making false statements to federal agents.
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NASA astronaut Anne McClain was accused of having illegally accessed a bank account during a mission at the International Space Station.The case generated global attention, raising the possibility that it would be the first crime committed outside the planet.However, the judicial process revealed a very different outcome.The South Texas District Public Prosecutor reported that Summer Heather Worden, a former McClain partner, pleaded guilty to ha…
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NASA astronaut's estranged wife pleads guilty to falsely alleging first crime committed in space
Summer Worden, the estranged wife of a NASA astronaut Anne McClain, has pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement over what was alleged to be the first crime committed in space.
A former intelligence agent of the Air Force admitted her guilt for declaring her falsehood to the authorities, claiming that the former astronaut wife, from whom she was separated at the time, had committed the first crime in space history, as confirmed by the competent authorities. The 50-year-old Summer Worden, thus risks up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of 250 thousand dollars for having declared a fake on NASA's astronaut and t…
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