Excalibur Almaz

Excalibur Almaz
Company type	Private
Industry	Aerospace
Founded	Isle of Man (2005)
Defunct	2016
Headquarters	Douglas, Isle of Man
Key people	Arthur M. Dula, CEO
Website	excaliburalmaz.com

Excalibur Almaz 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.^[1]

As of 2012^[update], plans, design and flight safety reviews were planned for 2015.^[2]^{[needs update]} According to a 2012 interview with Art Dula, the chairman of Excalibur Almaz, the Excalibur Almaz capsule 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.^[3] The company had entered into an unfunded Space Act Agreement with NASA as part of the Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) activities in 2011^[4] but was not selected to receive funding under any phases of it.^[5]

^ "XCOR and Excalibur Almaz sign MOU for suborbital training services" (Press release). XCOR Aerospace. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012 – via PR Newswire.
^ Ben Rooney (20 June 2012). "Fly Me to the Moon". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
^ "Interview with Art Dula (Chairman Excalibur Almaz) – Part 4". moonandback.com (vimeo.com). Retrieved 4 September 2012.
^ Ryba, Jeanne, ed. (26 October 2011). "CCP and Excalibur Sign Space Act Agreement". NASA. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023.
^ "NASA Announces Next Steps in Effort to Launch Americans from U.S. Soil" (Press release). NASA. 3 August 2012. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2012.

[xcor-pr-20120620-1] "XCOR and Excalibur Almaz sign MOU for suborbital training services" (Press release). XCOR Aerospace. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2012 – via PR Newswire.

[WSJ120620-2] Ben Rooney (20 June 2012). "Fly Me to the Moon". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 6 July 2012.

[mbEA4-3] "Interview with Art Dula (Chairman Excalibur Almaz) – Part 4". moonandback.com (vimeo.com). Retrieved 4 September 2012.

[ccpexcalibur-4] Ryba, Jeanne, ed. (26 October 2011). "CCP and Excalibur Sign Space Act Agreement". NASA. Archived from the original on 5 February 2023.

[nasa20120803-5] "NASA Announces Next Steps in Effort to Launch Americans from U.S. Soil" (Press release). NASA. 3 August 2012. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2012.

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