For years, one of the coolest (and strangest) trivia facts floating around was that an astronaut may have committed the first crime in space. It had everything: NASA drama, the International Space Station, a bank account, and a divorce spicy enough to survive re-entry.
But plot twist: it never happened.
Summer Worden – the woman who accused her astronaut ex, Anne McClain, of sneaking into her bank account while orbiting 250 miles above Earth – has now admitted she made the whole thing up. Yep. She just pled guilty to lying to investigators, confirming that the big space mystery was less “Interstellar” and more “misunderstood login permissions.”
Turns out McClain actually had access to the account for years. So instead of the first crime in space, what we really had was the first cosmic misunderstanding over online banking.
Now Worden faces up to five years in prison and a hefty fine (far less glamorous than a space-themed courtroom drama, but probably more realistic). Meanwhile, McClain is cleared, and the International Space Station can go back to its regularly scheduled programming: science, zero gravity hijinks, and definitely not financial fraud.
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