I’m new to the game and I just found an abandoned ship In front of a space station. How do I claim the thing?

This is an earnest question, not a jab. I’m genuinely curious to hear from perma-death players.

I’m a veteran player with 566 hours on record (currently playing on Survival mode), and to me at least, perma-death doesn’t sound like the kind of added challenge that enhances the player experience in any meaningful way. All it does is massively raise the stakes of failure, like performing skateboard stunts without protective gear. (Except that the bad outcome in this case is just extreme frustration rather than brain damage.)

Is it a completionist thing? I can sort of understand that: I’m at 25/27 Steam achievements myself, and getting to the center of the galaxy on perma-death mode is one of my two missing achievements. Only 0.7% of NMS players have done it, so if you have, I guess congratulations are in order.