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> By rotating the craft to point opposite the direction of travel and actuating the engine again.

IIRC, one of Heinlein's juvenile novels referred to this as a skew-flip maneuver; I was quite impressed reading about it at about age 12, several years after its publication date.

[Just remembered the title: Have Space Suit - Will Travel, a play on the title of the TV show Have Gun - Will Travel]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Space_Suit%E2%80%94Will_T...




In the Expanse books/show they use this all the time and call it "flip and burn". Pretty cool to see what nearly-plausible everyday spaceflight might look like.




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