To me that's smoke and mirror. They'll be paying for a ride on a US mission, flown from US soil on an all-American launch system (no European can even get near

To me that's smoke and mirror. They'll be paying for a ride on a US mission, flown from US soil on an all-American launch system (no European can even get near its engineering thanks to out of control European immigration policies and ITAR). It's not like Europe could do it on it's own. Millions of dollar so that bureaucrats can have pictures of an European person on the moon and claim "look, 'we' did it too!". Absolutely no European engineering involved. Is this the European vision for space?