Astronaut Anne McClain’s Ex-Wife Prison Sentence for False Space Crime

Summer Heather Worden is going behind bars.

The ex-wife of NASA astronaut Anne McClain was sentenced to three months in federal prison after falsely accusing McClain of illegally accessing her bank account while in space back in 2019, per a Feb. 12 press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. She pled guilty in Nov. 2025 to lying to law enforcement.

The 51-year-old will also face two years of supervised release and have to pay $210,000 in restitution, the press release stated. She had been facing up to five years and a $250,000 fine, per The New York Times.

Worden had alleged that McClain—with whom she shares a son—had “guessed her password and illegally accessed” her bank account while in space on the International Space Station in July 2019 while they were doing through a divorce, per the release. 

“Even after an internal investigation exonerated the former spouse,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, “Worden continued promoting the false claim to news outlets and hired a media consultant to amplify the claim. The evidence further showed Worden publicly released her former spouse’s personal information.”