Tutorial comments, pausing the game and press <TAB> to progress / remove info is unusual, and I think it's quite annoying. It interrupts the game (bad) and the user might accidentally hit <TAB> too fast and miss important information.

I prefer tutorials to behave like this:
- (Never interrupt the ...

Can we please "ENTER" the escape pod and have the camera follow the rocket as it launches?

"Watching a rocket launch" versus actually "riding the rocket into space" makes all the difference and would give a much more satisfactory feeling of completing the primary objective!