NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped retired of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX betterment vessel SHANNON aft she, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov landed successful the Pacific Ocean connected August 9, 2025 disconnected the seashore of San Diego, California.
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A erstwhile Air Force quality serviceman has pleaded blameworthy to lying to a national cause by falsely claiming that her estranged astronaut woman illegally accessed her slope relationship portion aboard the International Space Station for six months, prosecutors successful Houston, Texas, said Friday.
The blameworthy plea by Summer Worden, 50, connected Thursday comes much than 5 years aft she was indicted successful the abstraction case for lying astir actions by her wife, Anne McClain, a U.S. Army colonel, portion they were successful the midst of a divorce.
Worden, who lives successful Kansas, was accused of making mendacious statements astir McClain to NASA's Office of Inspector General and the Federal Trade Commission.
Worden successful July "alleged her estranged spouse had guessed the password and illegally accessed her slope relationship portion the spouse was deployed to the International Space Station," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas said successful a statement.
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"However, Worden had really opened the relationship successful April 2018," the bureau said. "Both parties had accessed it until January 2019 erstwhile Worden changed the credentials."
"The probe revealed Worden had granted her spouse entree to her slope records from astatine slightest 2015, including her login credentials," the connection said.
McClain's lawyer told The New York Times successful 2019 that she had checked the relationship to show the family's finances, and that she had ne'er been told by Worden that she could not person entree to the account.
McClain was aboard the Space Station from December 2018 done June 2019.
She precocious commanded the SpaceX Crew-10 unit ngo to the Space Station from March this twelvemonth until August.
Worden, who remains escaped connected bond, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected Feb. 12.
She faces a maximum imaginable condemnation of up to 5 years successful prison.
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