Space Lawyer, Art Dula, to Receive “Pioneer of NewSpace” Award

July 21, 2010 at 12:59 pm | Posted in Space Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty

PRESS RELEASE
Date Released: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Source: Space Frontier Foundation

Nyack, NY – The path to commercial space is blazed by the winners of the “Pioneer of NewSpace” and “NewSpace Journalism” awards and this year, they go to Art Dula and Miles O’Brien, respectively. Dula led the industry by creating innovative commercial space companies and O’Brien by spreading the news about NewSpace. The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) will present these honors at the NewSpace Awards Gala on July 24th during the NewSpace 2010 Conference in Silicon Valley, CA.

“Pioneer of NewSpace” Award

Art Dula has been leading us into space for years and is the ultimate NewSpace pioneer. The “Pioneer of NewSpace Award” is given to early leaders in the creation of the commercial space industry who have left a lasting legacy either through their own personal investment or the creation of an early NewSpace business enterprise.

“Art Dula has been doing NewSpace since before anyone knew what NewSpace was,” said SFF Founder Bob Werb. “He has long been a leader in creating new businesses and in developing the ideas needed for opening the space frontier.”

We owe our ability to launch private spacecraft in part to Dula as his company, Space Services Inc., secured the first regulatory approval for a private space launch. In 1982, it launched the first private U.S. space vehicle, the Conestoga, and from there Dula created many more innovative private space companies. For more information about this amazing man, visit his website. More…