NASA investigates 1st-ever-crime in space™

[Tender Branson]

How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space

Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed that her estranged spouse still seemed to know things about her spending. Had she bought a car? How could she afford that?

Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Ms. Worden’s spouse, Anne McClain, was a decorated NASA astronaut on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. She was about to be part of NASA’s first all-female spacewalk. But the couple’s domestic troubles on Earth, it seemed, had extended into outer space.

Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple’s still-intertwined finances. Ms. Worden felt differently. She filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family lodged one with NASA’s Office of Inspector General, accusing Ms. McClain of identity theft and improper access to Ms. Worden’s private financial records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/us/nasa-astronaut-anne-mcclain.html

[PSOL]

As the participants are all Americans, I fail to see how this is “international”.

[Tender Branson]

As the participants are all Americans, I fail to see how this is “international”.

It happened on the ISS.

If a bunch of Americans shoot up another bunch of Americans in Austria, we would also care.

[dead0man]

what an odd story from top to bottom...apparently we didn't know we had a lesbian astronaut until this story broke, but her official NASA photo at one point had them together?  Why wouldn't NASA want us to know we had a lesbian astronaut?  Isn't that good PR?

[Kingpoleon]

what an odd story from top to bottom...apparently we didn't know we had a lesbian astronaut until this story broke, but her official NASA photo at one point had them together?  Why wouldn't NASA want us to know we had a lesbian astronaut?  Isn't that good PR?

How is that good PR? Maybe for Hollywood, but not for NASA, which is basically the South’s Space Agency. (Source: all four of NASA’s most major flight centers - chiefly Johnson/Kennedy - are in the South)

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

what an odd story from top to bottom...apparently we didn't know we had a lesbian astronaut until this story broke, but her official NASA photo at one point had them together?  Why wouldn't NASA want us to know we had a lesbian astronaut?  Isn't that good PR?

Who is “we”?

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

what an odd story from top to bottom...apparently we didn't know we had a lesbian astronaut until this story broke, but her official NASA photo at one point had them together?  Why wouldn't NASA want us to know we had a lesbian astronaut?  Isn't that good PR?

wasn't Sally Ride a lesbian?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Grand Theft Sputnik I.

[dead0man]

what an odd story from top to bottom...apparently we didn't know we had a lesbian astronaut until this story broke, but her official NASA photo at one point had them together?  Why wouldn't NASA want us to know we had a lesbian astronaut?  Isn't that good PR?

How is that good PR? Maybe for Hollywood, but not for NASA, which is basically the South’s Space Agency. (Source: all four of NASA’s most major flight centers - chiefly Johnson/Kennedy - are in the South)

where do you think the people that want to work in space go if they live in the midwest, the west coast or the northeast?

Who is “we”?

Americans or humanity, either way makes sense.

wasn't Sally Ride a lesbian?

yes, but that "we" that confused Al Jones so much didn't know she was until after she died