Dr. Ira Sharlip was the guest for this Space Show program. We began the interview talking about his desire to be a space tourist in the late 1980's when he escrowed his $5,000 deposit with the former Society Expeditions for the Project Space Voyage Program. Had the program actually taken place, he would been on the second tourist flight that orbited Earth from five to eight times before returning eight to twelve hours later. Dr.