I was born nearly 30 years too late for that. I can imagine that people really believed we would be a proper spacefaring race by the year 2000, but nope. I can imagine, though, that i'll be on another planet before i die (may that be in 60 years, or in 500 years...) although i know i might be wrong. We all know the future is some really unpredictable ****, i mean, 50 years ago nobody saw the computer coming, and we still haven't realised that flying cars aren't gonna happen (again, i can't be sure). All that aside, i hope Kerbalkind is going all future sci-fi stuff soon, because i've reached the limits of KSP. Seriously, Design above Function. Even in wartimes. And in space. And in heavy industry.