At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur Kazakhstan try their hand as part of their preflight activities.

At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 50-51 crewmembers Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (left) and Peggy Whitson of NASA (right) try their hand at a game of chess Nov. 10 as part of their preflight activities. Pesquet, Whitson and Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Nov. 18, Baikonur time, on the Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

NASA/Alexander Vysotsky