Arthur M. ("Art") Dula (born February 6, 1947, in Arlington, Virginia) is a space lawyer, a patent attorney, the literary executor for major science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein and chairman, founder of the private spaceflight company, Excalibur Almaz.
He is also a registered broker with US State Department, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Defense Trade Controls.
[3] It sold a Soviet Proton rocket launch to Hughes Aerospace in 1987, and marketed remote sensing radar images.
[5] 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 consulted NASA on the Space Shuttle payload contract, and served as legal advisor to the U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment.
A 2012 lawsuit alleged that Dula improperly lost US$300,000 of Donna Beck's investment in an asteroid mining project.