When Clarissa Mao exits the airlock, we see two suit thrusters firing 'up', and two firing 'down'. Thrusters fired in opposite directions would cancel each other out, so she would just be burning fuel.
Correction: The thrusters could never be perfectly placed in line with the centre of mass of the person in the suit, as with real world spacecraft, and so opposing thrusters are often fired to cancel out unwanted rotation.
Correction: The thrusters could never be perfectly placed in line with the centre of mass of the person in the suit, as with real world spacecraft, and so opposing thrusters are often fired to cancel out unwanted rotation.
When Reverend Anna brings Clarissa Mao into the infirmary a Hill-Rom hospital bed is shown in the background with a patient resting on it. These hospital beds (which are the ones used in hospitals in real life) are on wheels in order to move easily. Every other hospital bed on ships seen in the series are ones bolted to the floor for obvious reasons, a portable bed on wheels would be totally impractical on a ship that goes through periods of intense and sudden velocity changes and zero-gravity.
Correction: The Nauvoo was designed to spend the vast majority of its life in spin-gravity, not thrust gravity. For this reason, many of the tools, drones, and objects on the Nauvoo have wheels to take advantage of this.
Correction: The Nauvoo was designed to spend the vast majority of its life in spin-gravity, not thrust gravity. For this reason, many of the tools, drones, and objects on the Nauvoo have wheels to take advantage of this.