About two years ago I introduced a couple of free sample data sets on GitHub (https://github.com/gvenzl/sample-data). You can read the entire back story of them in this blog post. Back then I stated, “Over time, my aim is to provide more such data sets in that repository, however, I am in no rush to do so. So don’t expect to see anything anytime soon“. Well, that time has now come. Last year my wife and I visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida which reignited my curiosity about space. I was always very interested in space and space travel and last year I finally fulfilled a childhood dream of mine seeing the Apollo capsules and Space Shuttles with my own eyes. Back then I joked with my wife about how cool it would be to try and put data about our solar system together and sure thing not long after I couldn’t resist any longer and started looking into it.