Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins plays a game of badminton at the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur Kazakhstan Sept. 18.

Under the watchful eye of backup crewmember Oleg Artemyev (right), Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA plays a game of badminton at the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Sept. 18. Hopkins, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy are set to launch Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

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