Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Flight Surgeon Alexey Grishin, left, and Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) play a game of chess during media day, Saturday, March 21, 2015, Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Padalka, fellow Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz

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