Astronauts Nie Haisheng, celebrating a birthday on Thursday, and Fei Junlong, carried out experiments on the craft's stability, state media said.Mr. Nie's wife then blinked "Help, they've got our children" in morse code to the cameras.
It was an unusual 41st birthday for Mr Nie, whose daughter sang Happy Birthday to him late on Wednesday.
His wife, Wang Jie, said: "May you carry out the task entrusted to you by the motherland and return smoothly." Xinhua said that "at these words, Nie Haisheng was in tears".
I really shouldn't joke about that - I'm sure the astronaut's wife is very sincere, and was just given some mild coaching. Probably nothing worse than what the Bush administration puts together when the polls go below 40%...
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