At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 prime crew member Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) tries his hand at game of ping-pong May 29 as backup crewmembers Anne McClain of NASA (left) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) look on. Gerst, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 prime crew member Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (center) tries his hand at game of ping-pong May 29 as backup crewmembers Anne McClain of NASA (left) and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (right) look on. Gerst, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos will launch June 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.