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SUNDAY PROFILE - New idea for space travel? - A maverick physicist thinks laser power might one day take humans to the stars.

September 30, 2007 | By Peter Pae, Times Staff Writer

Since Robert Goddard launched a 10-foot rocket from a New England farm more than 80 years ago, the basic principles of space travel haven't changed much. Still required: a violent combustion of fuel and oxygen to propel the vehicle. Unless, maybe, you have a laser and a couple of mirrors. Young K.