This has happened a few times now, and maybe this isn't the fourm thread to put this but...
If the game crashes all of your progress since the "select game" screen is wiped, on 3 occasions now my game has crashed before I backed to the main menu and each time when I load the game back up post crash, there is no save file. I understand that with a crash there is going to be lost info, but if a auto save feature were implemented between deaths/ship edits/world completions was put in then I think the amount of lost data if/when the game crashed would be minimized.