Factual error: When the shuttles are approaching the station, their engines are firing from the rear, meaning they are in constant acceleration toward the station. When arriving at a station, you would need to slow down as you approach, meaning the engines should be firing forward (or the shuttle should reverse direction). This happens in all scenes where shuttles are approaching the station.
Elysium (2013)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley
Max (Matt Damon) blows up Kruger (Sharlto Copley) with a grenade. Spider tries to use the codes in Max's brain to override Elysium's system, but he can't do so without killing Max. Max tells him to do it anyway and Spider reprograms the mainframe to accept all of Earth's population as citizens of Elysium. Elysium sends medical ships down to the planet to heal the wounded. Max dies.
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Suggested correction: But the station spins to create artificial gravity for the outer rim where the ships are headed. The ships approaching are just matching speed and don't need to fully brake.
Not when accelerating toward the structure. They would have to slow their approach, then match the radial velocity of the ring, which would still mean decelerating to match the structure's relative position in orbit.
John Carlyle: Droids, there appears to be some type of wheeled vehicle with one - two occupants, they are armed and I'd like them dead.
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