The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Alia Al Mansoori's winning Genes in Space experiment docks at the International Space Station today.
The action starts in the live stream below at 1.30pm (UAE time) when the spacecraft makes its rendezvous with the ISS.
With help of the station's robotic arm, the installation of the capsule will be completed at about 4.30pm. Join us here.
The last few days have been a whirlwind for 15-year-old Alia, who travelled to the Kennedy Space Station in Florida to witness the launch on Monday.
The liftoff of what Nasa calls CRS12, took place at 12.31pm US time as the nine Merlin engines on the rocket ignited simultaneously with 1.7 million pounds of thrust.
After a two-day journey, the Dragon capsule is expected to dock with the help of the station's robotic arm.
After unloading, one of two American astronauts are expected to perform Alia’s experiment using samples developed by the pupil with help from Harvard University and carried out on a machine called a miniPCR, which can replicate genetic material and test it under a number of conditions.
At a date still to be confirmed it will then be returned to Earth on a Dragon where it will be evaluated by the Emirati pupil at Al Mawakeb School, and the Harvard team.
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Game Of Thrones Season Seven: A Bluffers Guide
Want to sound on message about the biggest show on television without actually watching it? Best not to get locked into the labyrinthine tales of revenge and royalty: as Isaac Hempstead Wright put it, all you really need to know from now on is that there’s going to be a huge fight between humans and the armies of undead White Walkers.
The season ended with a dragon captured by the Night King blowing apart the huge wall of ice that separates the human world from its less appealing counterpart. Not that some of the humans in Westeros have been particularly appealing, either.
Anyway, the White Walkers are now free to cause any kind of havoc they wish, and as Liam Cunningham told us: “Westeros may be zombie land after the Night King has finished.” If the various human factions don’t put aside their differences in season 8, we could be looking at The Walking Dead: The Medieval Years.
