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I mean, that’s a pretty air tight alibi.
Yes, but probably not for the reason you think.
The accusation was that the astronaut illegally accessed her bank account from the International Space Station while the couple was going through a divorce. Which is totally possible. The ISS does, in fact, have Internet access. And every byte of data transferred to and from the station is tracked. It is very easy to verify whether an account was accessed from there.
But that's not even where the false accusation part is. From the NYT Article about this:
So access wasn't illegal, she had the password and was allowed access at the time it happened.
How dare you attack my pun