The excessive amount of potatoes being grown in Lunar Habitat is most likely a nod to what Matt Damon's character had to go through in The Martian (2015) where he had to grow potatoes in order to survive on Mars after his crew had left him there.
General Naird makes several laps around the Lunar Habitat. This is shown top-down where the camera rotates in sync with Naird, making the habitat itself rotate. This is a nod to several scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) where the camera also is fixed on a character while the scenery rotates, such as when Bowman is followed jogging around aboard the Discovery.