The Japanese Prime Minister and Space Noodles
A couple days ago, I talked about Space Ramen (yum!).
It seems that there are plenty of people interested in these things: the Japanese prime minister just rang up the astronauts to ask how those noodles actually tasted in space.
Hilarious! At least Koizumi has his priorities straight *giggle*:
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took a few minutes' break from a potentially devastating political battle over postal privatisation on Thursday to discuss noodles with a space shuttle astronaut. In a live link-up with the Discovery, Koizumi chatted with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and shuttle commander Eileen Collins about various aspects of their mission, including an instant noodle dish specially developed for consumption in space. "Mr Noguchi, I tried the space noodles, but how did they taste in space? Were they good?" Koizumi asked. . . . "Space noodles were one of the things I was really looking forward to," Discovery's lead spacewalker Noguchi replied. "They were surprisingly close to the delicious taste of noodles on Earth," he added. |