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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 56 crew members Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left) and Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA try their hand at a game of chess May 29 as part of the traditional pre-launch ceremonies. They and crewmate 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.