Just bought the game and trying it out for the first time - the game wants me to press arrow up and space bar to active 'mouse steering', but when I press these keys, my ship tilts downwards and shoots the station. Did the developers really intend for this to happen or it is that buggy?

Aha, the symbol on screen was a square with an up arrow in it, so I naturally assumed it was the up arrow button.
Thank you

Also uses a different symbol for TAB key, I have a mechanical gaming keyboard and none of those archaic symbols are on it. Thanks for the info, I would have given up and refunded the game for sure.