Going to bump this:
I like this and would like to see this. When mining / salvaging / repairing in a sizeable ship and you lasers go out of range you want to just strafe yourself a bit closer without touching any other other controls, at least that's what I would like.
For my keyboard settings I got, the arrow keys for all turning and AWSD I would like to have for directional acceleration.
It would also actually be nice to see a target velocity rather than a percentage bar of your current speed with the way it is currently.