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Would thrust reversal be a desirable solution in advanced interstellar travel? I'm watching the Expanse right now and on the one side the big engine at one end thing is just beautiful and in extend leads to ships like the CR-90 Corellian. But then always rotating your ship into manoeuvres takes away so many options. Specially for work near other objects, like mining vessels and tugs, where RCS only would be uneconomical or in military applications.
We even have planes with thrust vectoring and right now, so the technology could be there. Another option would be gondolas which can be angled. All considering Linear acceleration based gravity isn't needed, but that would lend itself more to long haulers anyways.
Any thoughts?

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