AirshowAt the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur Kazakhstan Expedition tries his hand.

AirshowAt the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 prime crewmember Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) tries his hand at game of ping-pong May 29 as backup crewmembers Anne McClain of NASA (left) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) look on. Gerst, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Victor Zelentsov.