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23-941: [REDACTED] Dula is a name. Notable people with the name include: Arthur M. Dula (born 1947) American lawyer and patent attorney Lishan Dula (born 1987), long-distance runner for Bahrain Louis Dula (born 1912), American Negro leagues baseball pitcher Tom Dula (1845–1868), Confederate soldier Vivalda Dula , Angolan singer-songwriter and percussionist Dula Bhaya Kag (1902–1977), Indian poet, songwriter, writer and artist Đula Mešter (born 1972), Serbian volleyball player of Hungarian ethnicity Ðula Sabo ( fl. 1928), Yugoslav wrestler See also All pages with titles containing Dula Doula , an assistant providing non-medical support during and after childbirth Dulas (disambiguation) Dula-Horton Cemetery , historic cemetery in North Carolina [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share

46-551: A now-defunct " space travel company, using Russian-made Almaz spacecraft". Dula was born February 6, 1947, in Arlington, Virginia . He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics, from Eastern New Mexico University , in 1970, and his Juris Doctor, in civil law, from Tulane University , in 1975. He is married to Tamea A. Dula. They live in Houston, Texas . They have two sons. Excalibur Almaz Excalibur Almaz

69-658: A private space launch. In 1982, it launched the first private U.S. space vehicle, the Conestoga , from Matagorda Island , Texas. Spacehab, Inc., builds payload bay Spacehab modules for the U.S. Space Shuttle . Space Commerce Corporation was the first U.S.-Russian aerospace joint venture. It sold a Soviet Proton rocket launch to Hughes Aerospace in 1987, and marketed remote sensing radar images. Tethers Unlimited, Inc., won seven patents on space tether systems, and secured over $ 2 million in research contracts. Starcraft Boosters, Inc., has contracts with US Air Force and NASA for

92-587: A suite of suborbital flight experiences as training milestones in preparation for orbital and trans-lunar missions. In 2010, Excalibur Almaz partnered with Space Launch Services (SLS) to finance Sea Launch 's preparations to emerge from Chapter 11 with US$ 12 million of debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing to provide investment in a financial reorganisation of Sea Launch. SLS earlier provided $ 12.5 million of DIP funds to Sea Launch in December 2009. A secondhand Soviet-era space capsule that launched into space twice

115-410: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arthur M. Dula Art Dula's law practice focuses on aerospace and intellectual property law, technology licensing, business start-up and development, patents, contracts, corporations, securities, copyrights and trademarks. His clients include U.S. and Russian aerospace firms. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court ,

138-641: The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on shuttle mission STS-107 —is a consultant on space suit and crew biological environment design for Excalibur Almaz. Excalibur Almaz was designing a spacecraft based on the VA capsule hull from the TKS spacecraft . The VA is a space capsule from the Soviet space program , originally designed for the military Almaz space station program. The needed development of propulsion systems for

161-603: The StarBooster launching system. Excalibur Almaz , Ltd., owns several Almaz Space System space capsules and space stations , and intended to begin launching its spacecraft as early as 2013. Art Dula is literary executor for the major science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein . He also serves as Trustee of the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust. In 2006, the Trust awarded

184-533: The Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) activities in 2011 but was not selected to receive funding under any phases of it. In 2009, Excalibur Almaz hoped to begin flights by 2012 with revenue flights starting as early as 2013. As of January 2012 , Excalibur Almaz updated its mission service offerings to include lunar and deep space capabilities. Based on independent market studies, these missions beyond Low Earth Orbit will provide

207-605: The Isle of Man in early 2011. EA "planned to use the modules to provide extra room and supplies for the tourists and researchers it hoped to ferry into space." Excalibur Almaz's two Salyut-class 29-ton space stations, each with a capacity of 95 cubic meters will serve as the heart of its lunar and deep space capabilities. The Soviet-era electronics have been completely gutted and supposedly replaced with modern avionics supplied from an unnamed company. By using modernised, tried-and-tested equipment rather than developing technology from scratch,

230-622: The Soviet artefacts to offer commercial spaceflight services. In total, EA acquired four VA capsules and two Almaz (Salyut) modules in hopes of flying the combined spacecraft as a crew and cargo transportation system to the Moon, the asteroids and deep space. The VA spacecraft being offered still bears the Excalibur Almaz name and logo, as well as the flags of Russia, the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and

253-733: The Space Pioneer Award from the National Space Society , and the Gagarin Medal from the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics. A 2012 lawsuit alleged that Dula improperly lost US$ 300,000 of Donna Beck's investment in an asteroid mining project. The lawsuit was dismissed in January 2014. A lawsuit was filed in 2014 against Dula by Japanese entrepreneur Takafumi Horie , alleging he was duped into investing US$ 49 million into

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276-429: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Texas State and Federal Courts. He is also a registered broker with US State Department , Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Defense Trade Controls. Since 1980, Art Dula has co-founded several aerospace companies. Eagle Aerospace provided engineering expertise for NASA and U.S. aerospace companies. Space Services, Inc., secured the first US regulatory approval of

299-681: The United States. It was sold to an anonymous bidder for 1 million euro. In September 2013 Dula, J. Buckner Hightower and Excalibur Almaz Ltd. were brought to court under the charges of fraud of $ 300,000 for the planned asteroid mining project. The case ended with conciliation in January 2014. In November 2014 Art Dula, Dula's law office associate Anat Friedman, his business partner J. Buckner Hightower, The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust, Excalibur Limited, Excalibur Almaz Limited and Excalibur Almaz USA Inc were all sued by Japanese entrepreneur Takafumi Horie for fraud. The amount mentioned

322-662: The VA capsule was reportedly delegated to a then undisclosed European organisation as early as 2009. While the needed service module for an Excalibur Almaz capsule would have superficially resemble the FGB of the TKS spacecraft , it is based on Astrium 's ATV design according to Art Dula, the chairman of Excalibur Almaz. The potential Excalibur Almaz stations was to use two hulls from the Almaz space station program. The company's Soviet-era spacecraft were moved from Russia to Excalibur Almaz facilities on

345-462: The best business opportunity for commercial space transportation companies. Because of these more ambitious service offerings, Excalibur Almaz had pushed back its first launch to 2015. In June 2012, Excalibur Almaz signed an agreement with XCOR Aerospace for suborbital familiarisation and flight training services. In March 2016, plans were announced to have the equipment converted into an educational exhibit, owing to lack of funds. Excalibur Almaz

368-623: The first Heinlein Prize , in the amount of $ 500,000, to Peter Diamandis , for outstanding personal initiative and significant progress in commercial space activities. He has taught space law for the University of Houston , and was a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Akron . He consulted NASA on the Space Shuttle payload contract, and served as legal advisor to the U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. He has been awarded

391-597: The project was reportedly saving around $ 2 billion in development costs. The Russian Proton rocket, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, was intended to be used to launch one of the spacecraft into space, where it would have remained. Astronauts were to use the Excalibur Almaz RRVs to get to and from the spacecraft. Excalibur Almaz had established a 2012 agreement with XCOR Aerospace to provide

414-441: The same given name or the same family name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dula&oldid=1233247106 " Categories : Given names Surnames Hidden categories: Misplaced Pages indefinitely semi-protected pages Articles with short description Short description

437-440: Was $ 49 million, allegedly provided by Takafumi to run the company. It is alleged that some of the money was spent to buy Soviet hardware, which, as the businessman states, turned out to be "museum specimens". Some of the money was also transferred into Dula's own name. Other alleged irregularities included reducing Takafumi's shareholding percentage. In March 2015 one of the two hulls of Soviet-built Almaz space stations, along with

460-422: Was a private spaceflight company which planned to provide a variety of deep space crewed exploration missions, micro-gravity science, and payload delivery. EA also aimed to offer Low Earth Orbit cargo and crew delivery and return. As of 2012 , plans, design and flight safety reviews were planned for 2015. According to a 2012 interview with Art Dula , the chairman of Excalibur Almaz, the Excalibur Almaz capsule

483-664: Was based in Douglas, Isle of Man , with offices in Houston , Los Angeles , Moscow , and Tokyo . In October 2011, NASA signed an unfunded Space Act Agreement for work related to the Commercial Crew Development program. Details have not yet been released. In July 2012, Excalibur Almaz Inc. (EAI) successfully completed its Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Jonathan Clark, NASA flight surgeon on six Space Shuttle missions—and whose wife, Laurel Clark , died in

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506-617: Was set to be sold in Belgium on 2014-05-07. The Russian VA (Vozvraschaemyi Apparat, return vehicle) crew and cargo spacecraft was offered by the Berlin-based Lempertz auction house at its newly opened gallery in Brussels. The capsule was said to be the first historic spacecraft to be put up for sale in Europe. The VA capsule was sold to Excalibur Almaz (EA), a British company that planned to reuse

529-424: Was supposedly at a "very high level of technical readiness" and could be flown within two to three years. The main issue of the first crewed flight of the Excalibur Almaz capsule was regulatory, according to Dula, as the VA capsule had already completed nine uncrewed test flights during the Almaz program, all of which were successful. The company had entered into an unfunded Space Act Agreement with NASA as part of

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