At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 crew members Christina Koch of NASA (left) and Nick Hague of NASA (right) play a game of ping-pong March 7 as they take a break from pre-launch training. Along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, they 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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NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 59 crew members Christina Koch of NASA (left) and Nick Hague of NASA (right) play a game of ping-pong March 7 as they take a break from pre-launch training. Along with Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, they 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.