Go in Search of the Hyperdrive
As mentioned in a couple of hands-on previews with the game, in order for players to truly explore the vast stretches of No Man’s Sky’s galaxy, they’re going to need a Hyperdrive. This allows you to venture out further into the galaxy than your normal ship allows, although these distances haven’t yet been quantified by Hello Games. Knowing that there’s so much more that we cannot explore without the Hyperdrive makes acquiring it shoot straight to the top of the list of every wannabe space explorer.
Though this obviously will need to be found at some point in order to reach the center of the galaxy, we know for sure that it’s going to be the first thing we do so that we can go exploring whatever we want, however near or far away it may be at our own leisure.