Expedition 46-47 Crew Members Play Chess

At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 crew members Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left), Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (center) and Tim Kopra of NASA (right) took a break from training for a game of chess Dec. 9. The trio will launch Dec. 15 on their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov