“On December 6, at 5:42 am (00:42 Moscow time), the Chang'e-5 takeoff module successfully docked with the orbital and reentry modules,” the message says.

It is also reported that "at 6:12 (1:12 Moscow time) I reloaded soil samples onto the returned model."

Earlier it became known that the landing module of the Chinese automatic station "Chang'e-5" left the surface of the moon and went into the orbit of the Earth satellite.