At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 backup crew member Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (left) and prime crew member Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (right) take a break from pre-launch training March 7 for a game of ping-pong. Looking on against the wall are prime crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA. Ovchinin, Hague and Koch will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.
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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 backup crew member Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (left) and prime crew member Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (right) take a break from pre-launch training March 7 for a game of ping-pong. Looking on against the wall are prime crewmembers Nick Hague and Christina Koch of NASA. Ovchinin, Hague and Koch will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.