This is a great opportunity for ESA astronauts and should be a nice productivity boost for the station. I’m a little skeptical of the value of some of the private 2-week missions to ISS that border on tourism for some of the Dragon riders, but this fully professional astronaut crew should be much more positive.

I do wonder how much this will cost ($200 mil+ ?) and whether that money could have made a difference on European capsule development, but that’s a whole can of worms.