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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 backup crew member Anne McClain of NASA tries her hand at a game of billiards May 29 as part of the traditional pre-launch activities. She is one of the backups to the prime crew, Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, who 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.