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Summer Heather Worden, 50, pleaded guilty in Houston to lying about her spouse committing bank fraud from the International Space Station.

Worden falsely claimed her estranged spouse accessed her bank account while in orbit; investigators found she had shared the credentials years earlier.

She faces up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine at her February 2026 sentencing.

HOUSTON - A woman has pleaded guilty in a Texas court to lying about her spouse committing fraud while aboard the International Space Station.

The woman had claimed that her spouse had illegally accessed her bank account while deployed in orbit.

International Space Station fraud was a hoax

Summer Heather Worden, 50, of Sedgwick County, Kansas, pleaded guilty Thursday in Houston to lying to

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