Is there anyway to leave a space station without your ship?

The only 2 ways I've tried so far don't work.

1. Walking, you can walk all the way to the end of the runway (right word?), but there's a wall at the end
2. Surfing, if you stand on a ship once it's landed, it wont take off with you on top, and it appears when the ships are flying they don't have a hitbox.

Only other thing I can think of is to try and glitch out, but I've not come across anywhere to do that yet.

There is now. I don't remember if it was part of Pathfinder or Next, but there's a teleporter that allows you to travel between other teleporters (Space Stations and ones you can build in your own bases).

I believe you need to reach a certain point in the storyline to unlock the teleportation network.