[Kyng]

Perhaps the early 1950s, so that I would have been growing up during the Space Race .

(Though, I would also have been growing up through the end of steam on Britain's railways... which would have been sad )

Then you have to deal with the whole Cold War nuclear-fears too though. Trade-offs for real.

I don't think those fears have really gone away lol.

Well, they did for a while - but now, they've just been replaced with climate change fears  .