Hopefully the Planetary Society will test fly their first lightsail craft later this year or next year. Bill Nye (the CEO) sometimes talks about his dream of a laser on the Moon to propel such a vehicle. The PS seems like a pretty cool organisation and around 50k ordinary people have contributed to their first lightsail craft. It's like a massive global community project. For the foreseeable future they won't use lasers but only the Sun.
Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI_FH_2Cqr8