Expedition 65 backup crew member Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, left, plays a game of backgammon with NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Saturday, April 3, 2021, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The prime crew, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Spector)

Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi plays a game of backgammon at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Saturday, March 21, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. (Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls)

nhq202010060011 (Oct. 6, 2020) --- Expedition 64 backup crew member Mark Vande Hei of NASA plays a game of backgammon, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Expedition 64 prime crew of Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft on October 14. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)

jsc2018e085895 (Oct. 3, 2018) --- Expedition 57 prime crew member Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, left, plays backgammon with backup crew member David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency as prime crew member Nick Hague of NASA looks on during the traditional pre-launch ceremonies, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ovchinin and Hague are scheduled to launch on Oct. 11 onboard the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)