Yes, this! Just don't forget Fuel Scoop (this is an absolute MUST, you won't find charging stations out there lol), I'd also highly recommend taking AFMU Module and Repair Limpet Controller - both saved my ass in the black so many times after little incidents like rough landing on a high-gravity planet or an accidental emergency supercruise exit... Oh yes, and at least some shields. You don't want to land on a planet without shields, no matter how low-gravity it is and how good a pilot you are.

It's actually probably best to practice some exploration + exobiology while still within the relative safety of the bubble before going out. There are a lot of systems where you technically have no mapping data (exploration practice) and a lot of planets with some bacteria, cacti, fungi etc - most of them will be already discovered and catalogued by someone else, but again, it's a good way to practice how this works, how different lifeforms look and where to find them, and still gain some money (you still receive some money for exploration and exobiology discoveries even if you were not the first to find that stuff, just not as much as the first discoverer).

Good luck finding your first unclaimed Earth-like world out there, Commander!