Chang'e-5: China's unmanned moon probe delivers samples to orbiting spacecraft

Successful docking will be followed by orbiter separating and returning lunar material to Earth

A Chinese probe carrying samples from the lunar surface has successfully docked with a spacecraft orbiting the moon, in another space first for the nation, state media reported.

The manoeuvre on Sunday was part of the ambitious Chang'e-5 mission - named after a mythical Chinese Moon goddess - to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.