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At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 prime crew member Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right) take a turn at billiards July 15 during a break from pre-launch training. Looking on are backup crewmembers Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency (left) and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center). Yui, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of 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.