Often small craft in sci-fi will move similar to how planes move in the air banking sideways to turn. They’re relying on the air underneath the wing to push them one way or the other as the wing turns. But in the absence of an atmosphere that just doesn’t work.
Enter Battlestar Galactica, the 2004 reimagining. They have a whole series of fighter craft known as Vipers, that have propellant jets that are placed in various places across the craft. Each jet fires in order to turn the craft forwards and backwards, or even flip it completely around. A more realistic way to fly in space.
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