A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was no "Sheriff" Joe Arpaio. But in the mid-1980s, there was a ex-DEA agent named Joe Arpaio who was selling flights into space from a Scottsdale travel firm.
New Times has written about Arpaio's former life as a space cadet on several occasions, and the Arizona Republic published an article in 1985 about the venture. We wouldn't have known about the latter reference if not for the fact that the Repub re