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by pdonis 1044 days ago
No. Such a craft would either need to have full thrust engines pointing in every possible direction (way too costly and overbuilt) or would have to have some way of rotating its full thrust engines to be at any arbitrary angle relative to the ship (which then means you have to transfer all the thrust through gimbal mounts or whatever you're using to be able to rotate the engines, and those things won't be able to withstand that kind of stress). It's much easier and simpler to point your full thrust engines in one direction (out the back of the ship), so the thrust gets transferred through the entire ship's fixed structure, and then have smaller thrusters to rotate the ship to point in the direction you want to go.