Live coverage: SpaceX supply ship returns to Earth

Leaving crewmate Peggy Whitson behind in orbit for an extended mission, a Russian cosmonaut and his French co-pilot undocked from the International Space Station early Friday and plunged back to Earth, landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan to close out a 196-day mission.

NASA and SpaceX hold the post-launch and -landing press conference from Kennedy Space Center on April 8 after the successful flight of the Falcon 9 rocket

Check out imagery from Friday’s liftoff of a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket booster with the BulgariaSat 1 communications satellite from Florida’s Space Coast.