The Odyssey Timeship - the golden timeship against deep space, from the original 2001 site banner
Blank Odyssey Timeship passenger ticket
The passenger ticket - a scan of an actual printed ticket, unissued. Flight TIME-001, departing midnight 31/12/2002, arriving midnight 31/12/2101. Issued on behalf of The Royal Star & Garter Home, Registered Charity No 210119. Physical originals survive.
Letter from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II about the Odyssey Project
The letter from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace, 14 February 2001 - 'an important and significant document for future generations and historians'. Certified copy.
The handover of the first Odyssey records at the Imperial War Museum
November 2001 - the first records, on disc in a sealed presentation case, handed to HRH the Duke of Kent by Falklands veteran Simon Weston at the Imperial War Museum. The physical Timeship model stands behind.
The Odyssey Timeship original vector artwork
The Timeship itself - the original vector artwork, recovered from the project's design files and rendered afresh for this site.
The odysseytimeship.com home page as captured in September 2001
odysseytimeship.com as it stood in September 2001, from the Internet Archive - navy space banner, ticket-office menu, countdown to launch, and the ticket-holder sign-in.
The odysseytimeship.com home page with red menu buttons
A later capture of the home page - the menu buttons in their red livery, the countdown reading 393 days. The 'About the Odyssey Project' text is preserved on this site's home page.
Original site banner with yellow title pills
The original banner graphic - 'The Odyssey Timeship - Official online ticket office'. This site's header reproduces it.
The seven original menu buttons
The seven menu buttons from the 2001 ticket office: Royal Star and Garter, Why purchase a ticket?, FAQ, SOS Help System, Contact us, Make a donation, and A letter from our Patron.
Original countdown digit graphics
The launch countdown's LCD digit graphics, recovered from the Internet Archive. The countdown on this site's home page is their descendant - now counting down to arrival.
The small ticket graphic from the purchase button
'New user? Purchase your ticket here' - the sidebar ticket graphic every new passenger clicked.

Everything on this page survives from the original project - physical tickets, correspondence, design artwork, and the website itself as captured by the Internet Archive during the voyage year.

The original website

The complete ticket office ran at www.odysseytimeship.com and www.odysseytimeship.co.uk from 6 June 2001. The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine captured the site repeatedly during its operational life; the earliest capture of the home page is from September 2001, and the original text - About the Odyssey Project - is reproduced in full on this site's home page.

The original pages announced themselves, in a comment at the top of every page, as (c) 2001 Ashlawn Data Systems Ltd. All Rights Reserved - the prime contractor's credit - while the page metadata carried the generator name OpusVL, the company to which the build was outsourced and which still holds the project's records today.

The words of the ticket office

The original explanatory copy survives in the project files and the Internet Archive:

WHAT IS THE ODYSSEY? A virtual reality timeship in which ticket holders can record their Service memories, to be stored at the Imperial War Museum creating a unique record of Service life in the 20th and early 21st centuries.

WHEN? The Odyssey Timeship website will be open for entries from D-Day - 6th June 2001. All participants for just £10 can print off their own ticket with a unique reference number and password, enabling them to return to the site at any time to make any amendments or additions to their entry.

WHERE? The Odyssey Project is being run by The Odyssey Administration Centre, The Royal Star & Garter Home, Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey.

  • the ticket office FAQ, 2001

The postal application form also survives - six sections capturing service details, unit histories, donations and military memories, with the same structured fields the website collected. The physical original tickets, copies of the code, the website, specifications, documentation and correspondence are all held in the project archive.