Summer Heather Worden, the woman whose allegations once triggered headlines about a possible “first crime in outer space,” has now admitted in federal court that the accusations were false.
In November 2025, Worden pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to federal authorities, the U.S. Department of Justice had announced. Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer from Kansas, became the center of a high-profile investigation in 2019 after she claimed her estranged spouse — NASA astronaut Anne McClain — improperly accessed her bank account from the International Space Station (ISS) during McClain’s six-month mission aboard the orbiting laboratory.
