Leik Myrabo is an aerospace engineering professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute who retired from there in 2011.[1] He made the first demonstrations of the use of ground-based lasers to propel objects, lifting them hundreds of feet. His goal was to use ground-based lasers to propel objects into orbit; possibly reducing orbit-flight costs by large factors.
- ^ Inside Rensselaer, May 20, 2011: Faculty Celebrated at Recognition Dinner accessed 2012-09-26