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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 backup crew members Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos (left), Drew Morgan of NASA (center) and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) take a moment from pre-launch training for a game of chess March 7. They are the backups to the prime crew members, Christina Koch of NASA, Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Nick Hague of NASA, who 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.