Nov 15, 2025 04:36 AM
Woman pleads guilty to lying about astronaut wife accessing bank account from Space Station
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/space-st...count.html
EXCERPTS: The guilty plea by Summer Worden, 50, on Thursday comes more than five years after she was indicted in the space case for lying about actions by her wife, Anne McClain, a U.S. Army colonel, West Point graduate and Iraq war combat veteran, while they were in the midst of a divorce.
The claim came at a time when Worden said that the couple was engaged in a custody battle over what Worden’s then-6-year-old son [...] The Kansas resident was accused of making false statements about McClain to NASA’s Office of Inspector General and the Federal Trade Commission, where she alleged that McCain had committed identity theft.
Worden in July “alleged her estranged spouse had guessed the password and illegally accessed her bank account while the spouse was deployed to the International Space Station” [...] “The investigation revealed Worden had granted her spouse access to her bank records from at least 2015, including her login credentials,” the statement said.
At the time of the alleged illegal access, McClain was preparing for what NASA billed as the first all-female space walk, which was later scrapped because the agency did not have enough spacesuits to fit the astronauts.
[...] McClain was aboard the Space Station from December 2018 through June 2019. She recently commanded the SpaceX Crew-10 crew mission to the Space Station from March this year until August.
Worden, who remains free on bond, is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 12. She faces a maximum possible sentence of up to five years in prison... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/space-st...count.html
EXCERPTS: The guilty plea by Summer Worden, 50, on Thursday comes more than five years after she was indicted in the space case for lying about actions by her wife, Anne McClain, a U.S. Army colonel, West Point graduate and Iraq war combat veteran, while they were in the midst of a divorce.
The claim came at a time when Worden said that the couple was engaged in a custody battle over what Worden’s then-6-year-old son [...] The Kansas resident was accused of making false statements about McClain to NASA’s Office of Inspector General and the Federal Trade Commission, where she alleged that McCain had committed identity theft.
Worden in July “alleged her estranged spouse had guessed the password and illegally accessed her bank account while the spouse was deployed to the International Space Station” [...] “The investigation revealed Worden had granted her spouse access to her bank records from at least 2015, including her login credentials,” the statement said.
At the time of the alleged illegal access, McClain was preparing for what NASA billed as the first all-female space walk, which was later scrapped because the agency did not have enough spacesuits to fit the astronauts.
[...] McClain was aboard the Space Station from December 2018 through June 2019. She recently commanded the SpaceX Crew-10 crew mission to the Space Station from March this year until August.
Worden, who remains free on bond, is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 12. She faces a maximum possible sentence of up to five years in prison... (MORE - missing details)