Mission Log · A Record of Spaceflight
Last updated 26 August 2026
The operator of this site is the controller of the limited personal data described below, for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Questions about this notice, or about your rights under it, can be sent to contact@missionlog.space.
None. There is nothing on this site to fill in: no accounts, no registration, no contact form, no newsletter sign-up and no comment section. Everything published here is written by the site's operator; nothing is collected from readers.
The library's search box is the one thing you can type into, and what you type never leaves your computer. The catalogue is already in your browser by the time you can search it, so filtering happens locally — nothing you type is transmitted to the server or recorded anywhere.
As with every website, the server that delivers these pages records each request it answers. An entry contains your IP address, the date and time, the address of the page requested, the page you came from if there was one, and the identifying string your browser sends about itself.
These logs exist so that the site can be kept working and secure — diagnosing errors, noticing abuse, understanding load. They are not used to build any profile of you, are not combined with any other source, and are not shared with anyone.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests, Article 6(1)(f) — operating and securing the service.
No cookies are set when you read this site.
Reading the almanac stores nothing about you in your browser — no local storage, no preferences, no identifier of any kind, nothing that could be read back to recognise you.
Your browser does keep its own copy of the files it has already downloaded — the pictures, the typefaces, the code — so that returning pages load without fetching them again. That is the browser's ordinary cache, it works the same way on every website, it holds no information about you, and clearing your browsing data removes it.
None. Every page on this site is served entirely from this site — the typefaces, the code, the maps, the 3D models, the photographs, the films and the audio. Your browser makes no connection to any other organisation, so no other organisation learns that you visited.
The server makes no requests to outside services either. The archival photographs, films and audio published here were gathered once from public collections — NASA's libraries, Wikimedia Commons, archive.org — and are stored and served from this site; nothing is fetched from anywhere while the site runs, and your IP address is never passed to anyone.
Mission Log runs on infrastructure provided by Render Services, Inc., a company based in the United States, acting as a processor under a data processing agreement. The servers for this site are located in Oregon, in the United States.
This means personal data — in practice, the IP addresses recorded in server logs — is processed outside the European Economic Area. That transfer is covered by the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, which form part of Render's data processing agreement.
Server logs are retained by the hosting provider for a limited period under its standard retention policy, then deleted. They are not copied or archived anywhere else.
Under the GDPR you have the right to ask for access to your personal data, to have it corrected or erased, to have its processing restricted, to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests, and to receive it in a portable form. To exercise any of these, write to the address in section 1.
There is an honest limitation worth stating plainly. This site holds nothing that identifies you — no account, no cookie, no identifier of any kind. An IP address in a log cannot be matched to a person without help from your internet provider, which we neither have nor want. As permitted by Article 11 of the GDPR, we are not required to obtain additional information purely in order to identify you, and in most cases we will genuinely be unable to locate "your" data in order to act on a request. If you can supply enough detail to isolate specific log entries, we will do what we can.
If you believe your data has been handled improperly, you are entitled to complain to the data protection authority in the EU or EEA country where you live, where you work, or where the problem occurred. A complaint to a regulator does not require you to contact us first, though we would rather have the chance to put something right.
This site is a general-interest historical archive. It is not directed at children, and it collects no personal information from anyone of any age.
If what the site does with data changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated. There is no mailing list to notify, because there is no mailing list.