There was some notion that they would be studying lightning from the SS? I don't think that's slated for this trip. Olsen was posturing that he was going to be a "working scientist" on this trip. Tourists sometimes like to pretend that hey aren't tourists...
I was just noticing how $20M doesn't buy what it used to.
He's a working scientist all right. Subject of some medical experiments for ESA. Also, he has brought one of his infrared cameras, his own design, for his own purpose.