Chang'e-5 completes China's first docking in lunar orbit

After docking, it will head for Earth soon and then "Similar to the way a stone can skip over water, the return capsule will sprint into the atmosphere and then ascend again out of it, in order to reduce its speed to first cosmic velocity, which is around 8 kilometers per second, before landing safely at its designated site. " Pretty nifty... is this the first time such a technique is used to re-enter the atmosphere i wonder. Never heard of it before