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11-52-53: At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 40/41 backup crewmember Terry Virts of NASA (left) and prime crewmember and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right) try their hand at a game of Ping-Pong May 21 as they head into the homestretch of their pre-launch training. Gerst, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman will launch on May 29, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

11-52-53: At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 40/41 backup crewmember Terry Virts of NASA (left) and prime crewmember and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (right) try their hand at a game of Ping-Pong May 21 as they head into the homestretch of their pre-launch training. Gerst, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman will launch on May 29, Kazakh time, on the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Photographer Victor Zelentsov