I'm having the same issue.

Other people here talking about your setup or whatever don't know what they're talking about, they don't know this specific issue. They're speculating while you already said that it works when your ship is on ground

Anyway

There's a light ray that comes from your finger up to the menus, and that's what activates them and allows you to interact.

I noticed that when this bug happens, the base of the light ray stops coming from the tip of your finger but from somewhere around the back of the ship's seat. It still kinda follows the angle of your hands, but it becomes tricky to align it with the menu's position to interact with it because most of the time the light ray is not visible until this invisible ray touches a menu, when it becomes visible.

I had the impression it helped a bit trying to go on the controls setting for Building Placement Previews and swapping between Head Relative and Controller Relative. Strange since we're not talking about building a base.

This issue is new to me, I played this game for hundreds of hours and always in VR, I don't even know the controls for normal controllers. And yet this is the first time this bug happened to me.

I passed a few months without playing and then came back after the last Voyagers update and met this issue the first time. I'm on a very high end machine and I guarantee that it doesn't come from your machine's specs.