Kevin Ford and Alexander Misurkin

JSC2012-E-221495 (17 Oct. 2012) --- Taking time out from training, Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (left) and backup Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin (right) play a game of chess at their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Oct. 17, 2012. Ford, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin are preparing for launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to spend five months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov