LTI's exciting work is featured prominently in both print and broadcast media. Here is a sample of our coverage:

Print Media and the Web:

• Space.com
  "Laser Boosted Rocket Sets Altitutude Record", Nov 2nd, 2000

  A private group has set the world's altitude record for a laser-boosted rocket. The milestone flight is seen as a steppingstone to radically lowering the cost of access to space.

  
  
• Scientific American Presents:
  "The Way to Go in Space", March 1999
  

  Today's spacecraft carry their source of power. ORBITING solar-power station could beam microwave energy to an ascending lightcraft powered by magnetohydrodynamic thrust. The lightcraft focuses the microwave energy to create an "air spike" that deflects oncoming air.

Television:

• ABC News with Peter Jennings
  "Cutting Edge", Aired, August 13, 1998
  

  Technology on the cutting edge: "Imagine a highway to space- A highway made of light. These scientists at the White Sands Missile Range are in the process of building that highway... Lightcraft can deliver payloads into space for a fraction of the cost of conventional rockets... This could be the most evolutionary rocket science since Robbert Goddard's pioneering work in this same New Mexico desert..."

• BBC TV
  "Tomorrow's World", Aired June 18, 1998

  European reporter takes trip to White Sands Missile Range to witness Lightcraft flights. "If they are successful they will take present day space travel right out of orbit!" The scientists at the range are testing new materials to construct the Lightcraft…materials that can withstand the intense heat of the laser.

• BBC TV
  "Tomorrow's Worlds: Future Fantastic", Aired July 12, 1996
  

  Commentary by Gillian Anderson. A discussion of microwave and laser Lightcraft. Animations of microwave Lightcraft demonstrate their use in transporting people around the planet and into space.

• Discovery Ultrascience Series
  "Black Aircraft", Aired February 11, 1998

  A discussion of directed energy airspike technology, microwave and laser Lightcraft.

  
  
  
• Discovery Channel
  "World of Wonder", Aired March 20-21, 1998

  "This is the Lightcraft. It may be the prototype of the space ship of tomorrow.... Lightcraft represent a huge advancement in cheap spaceflight." - Michael Dorn

• Discovery Channel
  "Rocketships", Aired May 31, 1998

  Inventor of the Lightcraft speaks about both laser and microwave powered Lightcraft. Shows testing of some of the first indoor, wire guided and free flight Lightcraft experiments.

• Discovery Channel
  "Flight Line", Aired July 7-8, 1996

  Covers first wire guided Lightcraft flights at White Sands Missile Range. Leik Myrabo describes how the Lightcraft works and discusses future applications of microwave Lightcraft as well as the airspike at the RPI hypersonic laboratory in Troy, NY..

• CNN
  "Future Watch", Aired December 7, 1997
  

  An overview of the collaboration by NASA, the Air Force, and RPI to develop laser propulsion technology. Several scientists discuss the various applications of laser propulsion technology in our society.

• CNN
  "Science and Technology Week", Aired July 7-8, 1990
  

  Presents the Lightcraft Technology Demonstrator (predecessor to today's laser Lightcraft) and testing done at RPI hypersonic shock tunnel in Troy, NY. Leik Myrabo demonstrates how the Lightcraft works.

• ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
  "Quantum: Science Series", Aired August 8, 1996

  Leik Myrabo talks about microwave and laser Lightcraft, and airspike technology. The RPI hypersonic shock tunnel - where the airspike testing occurs - is explored.