An astronaut’s estranged wife has been indicted for falsely accusing her of committing a crime from space.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain had been accused of improperly accessing the bank account of her wife Summer Worden while on a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
The incident was widely reported in 2019 as potentially the first crime committed from space, but McClain strenuously denied any wrongdoing – making clear via her lawyer that she was checking on the intertwined family finances, using the login shared with her by Worden, as she had frequently done during their marriage.
Now, Worden has been charged with making false claims in her official complaints after an investigation by federal authorities.