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  • Basically, the spinning diameter has to be really long so the spinning doesn’t make you puke long-term (Coriolis force is a bitch). There were NASA tests and studies about it, which range between a 100 and a 1000 meter diameter.
    So, the ship has to be built for it from the design phase, be it with a rotating ring or a tether approach. Which we didn’t have yet a usecase for (for only a few days or months):

    • For a future Mars mission, would slow acceleration and deceleration be more viable.
    • Only real fitting usecase is a orbital space station with permanent crew.