Chinese oceanauts greet astronauts in space from bottom of sea

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Press Trust of India Beijing
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 1:49 AM IST

Three oceanauts - Ye Cong, Liu Kaizhou and Yang Bo - on board 'The Jiaolong', China's manned submersible, sent the greetings to the three astronauts, who docked the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft with the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module.

"We wish for a great success of the manual docking and brilliant achievements in China's manned space and manned deep-sea dive causes," the oceanauts were quoted as saying by official Xinhua news agency.

  

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First Published: Jun 24 2012 | 1:36 PM IST