A number of commanders have very helpfully donated Voice Attack profiles that can permit searching the galaxy map without removing a HMD. To use this though commanders would have to pay for it. I would wholeheartedly recommend Voice Attack - it's relatively inexpensive and really adds to the immersive experience - BUT it means that commanders would have to pay and that means Frontier's claim that ED is "made for VR" is misleading.
I hope Frontier devs are reading this. Please follow through on your early promises to have ED make full use of VR technology by implementing a virtual keyboard.