Current Events > Astronaut may have committed history's first "space crime"

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NASA is reportedly probing the case of an astronaut who was accused of accessing her estranged wife's bank account while on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Veteran astronaut and US Army lieutenant colonel Anne McClain was accused of improperly gaining access to Summer Worden's bank account on NASA computers while she was in space, according to The New York Times.

Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer, became suspicious when McClain had mentioned specific purchases while fighting with her estranged spouse, the Times reported. Upon her request, her bank reportedly confirmed that her account had been accessed with credentials entered on a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.