Sad news: Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles, chairman and founder of Nissin Foods, and the product design-oriented president described in Project X: Cup Noodle, has died. He was 96. The Sydney Morning Herald obituary notes that "In July 2005, Nissin introduced a vacuum packed instant noodle
specially designed for Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi to eat
during the US space shuttle Discovery’s mission." (via boingboing)