Art is beauty and beauty is truth

First shot and the interior docking shot are clockwise the rest are anticlockwise. The rotation looks right for how the shot is framed and the movement through the frame, so the rotation changes may have been deliberate for arts sake. (after all it is MGM's motto - Ars Gratia Artis (Art for Art's sake))

That depends...

Actually that depends on which way you are looking at it. Looking at it from the "front" it could be spinning clockwise then if looking from "behind" it would be counterclockwise without ever having to actually change direction...

Different camera angle

Indeed, the station "changes" its rotation direction from clockwise to counterclockwise. This is entirely due to the fact that in the shots after the second one, the station was being viewed on the other side, thus changing its apparent rotation. (After all, clockwise and counterclockwise are totally relative terms.)

I agree it does show incorrect rotation. At about 25 minutes into the film when viewing the shuttle approach the station you have a shot from the station looking out. The stars rotate clockwise, which means relative to the starts the station is rotating anti-clockwise. Whe then get a shot behind the station with the shuttle. Effectively as if the camera had pulled back outside the station, then moved a bit to the left. We are now fixed with reference to the stars and the station is rotating clockwise. It can't be a reverse angle shot as we can see the shuttle. Also we do see a beck entrance to the station but know it must be a different entrance as it is in red lighjt whereas the shot inside the front entrance was in white light. Its a valid argument that a differen angle was shown but this shows that we are viewing in the same angle. Face it the effects boys got it wrong.