Elon Musk welcomes SpaceX crew home with $50m donation to charity

SpaceX capsule carrying space tourists splashes down off Florida coast – video screenshot. Article by Richard Luscombe in Miami and agencies. The Guardian – September 19, 2021.

Elon Musk surprised his first all-private crew of space tourists with a welcome home gift after their trailblazing trip to orbit ended on Saturday night: a $50m donation to the children’s charity St Jude.

The billionaire SpaceX founder tweeted soon after their Atlantic ocean splashdown off the Florida coast that he was gifting the money towards the mission’s stated goal of raising $200m for the St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee. […]

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