A Roadmap to Interstellar Travel

I've had an obsession with laser light sails for as long as I've known about them. This is the only hope for interstellar flight in our lifetimes — and it's a totally realistic, doable technology. So let's take a look at what the future of interstellar flight might actually look like.

Sources

• A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight, NASA
• UCSB Experimental Cosmology — Starlight
• UCSB Experimental Cosmology — Directed energy planetary defense
• NIAC 2015 Seattle presentation
• Philip Lubin, How humanity can reach the stars (TED)
• Breakthrough Starshot