Photos: Spectacular start to Delta 4-Heavy’s satellite deployment mission

SpaceX is likely to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket set for launch April 30 on a drone ship just off the coast of Cape Canaveral, not at the company’s onshore recovery site as originally planned, after a ground test of the company’s Crew Dragon capsule at the landing pad ended in an explosion Saturday.

Watch the launch of Expedition 49, a three-man crew headed for the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

More photos show the successful liftoff of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight carrying the Cygnus commercial cargo spacecraft for Orbital ATK and the International Space Station.