Education
Tulane University.
Tulane University.
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 United States. and Russian aerospace firms. He is admitted to practice before the United States. Supreme Court, the United States. Patent and Trademark Office, and Texas State and Federal Courts.
He is also a registered broker with United States 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration and United States. aerospace companies.
Space Services, Incorporated., secured the first United States regulatory approval of a private space launch. In 1982, it launched the first private United States. space vehicle, the Conestoga, from Matagorda Island, Texas.
Spacehab, Incorporated., builds payload bay Spacehab modules for the United States. space shuttle.
Space Commerce Corporation was the first United States.-Russian aerospace joint venture. lieutenant sold a Soviet Proton rocket launch to Hughes Aerospace in 1987, and marketed remote sensing radar images. Starcraft Boosters, Incorporated., has contracts with United States Air Force and National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the StarBooster launching system.
Excalibur Almaz, Limited., owns several Almaz Space System space capsules and space stations, and intends to begin launching its spacecraft as early as 2013.
Art Dula is literary executor for the major science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein. In 2006, the Trust awarded 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 National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the space shuttle payload contract, and served as legal advisor to the United States. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment.
A 2012 lawsuit alleged that Dula improperly lost United States$300 thousand 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 investor Takafumi "Horiemon" Horie, alleging he was duped into investing United States$49 million into a now-defunct " space travel company, using Russian-made Almaz spacecraft".