HOUSTON, Nov. 17 -- A former Air Force intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents after she fabricated a sensational "space crime," falsely accusing her estranged astronaut wife, Anne McClain, of illegally accessing her bank account from the International Space Station (ISS).

Summer Worden, 50, entered the guilty plea on Thursday, more than five years after her claims against McClain, a decorated US Army colonel and combat veteran, made international headlines, CNBC reported.

The saga began in 2019 when Worden, then in the midst of a bitter divorce and custody battle with McClain, filed complaints with Nasa and the Federal Trade Commission.

She alleged that McClain had committed identity theft by accessing her b...