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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 backup crewmember Timothy Kopra of NASA (left) and his prime crewmember colleague Kjell Lindgren of NASA (right) share a game of chess July 15 during a relaxing break from pre-launch training. Lindgren, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch July 23, Kazakh time on the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.