Preparation for flights at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

USSR. Kazakh SSR. October 10, 1969. Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force for Space Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin, crew members of the Soyuz-6 spacecraft, flight engineer Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov and commander of the spacecraft Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (from left to right) during a game of chess at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the eve of the launch of the world's first group flight of three spacecraft, Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS