In the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (left) and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (right) focus on a game of checkers May 22 as they and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin prepare for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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