Taking time out from training, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (left) and backup Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin (right) play a game of chess at their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan October 17, 2012. Ford, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin are preparing for launch October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to spend five months on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov