Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
ArchiveBot is an IRC bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a WARC, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the Internet Archive (or other archive sites).
To use ArchiveBot, drop by #archivebot on EFNet. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue commands by typing it into the channel. Note you will need channel operator permissions in order to issue archiving jobs. The dashboard shows the sites being downloaded currently.
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20181224161154/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo_18_20.html
Apollo 18 through 20 - The Cancelled Missions
There were originally 3 more Apollo missions scheduled to fly to the Moon in
the initial Apollo plan, all were cancelled due to budgetary constraints.
Apollo 20 was cancelled in January 1970. The flights planned for Apollo 15
and Apollo 19 were cancelled in September, 1970, the remaining missions were
then renumbered 15 through 17.
The original recommendations for the missions were:
No crews were officially assigned to the cancelled missions. The normal
crew rotation had the backup crew for a mission moving up to become the prime
flight crew three missions later. Based on that scenario, the crews for the
cancelled missions would have been:
Apollo 18
Richard Gordon, Commander
Vance Brand, Command Module Pilot
Harrison Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot
Apollo 19
Fred Haise, Commander
William Pogue, Command Module Pilot
Gerald Carr, Lunar Module Pilot
Apollo 20
Charles Conrad, Commander
Paul Weitz, Command Module Pilot
Jack Lousma, Lunar Module Pilot
These are subject to some uncertainty - they are based on the normal rotation
but there is no way of knowing if these would have been the actual crews
assigned. For example, since Conrad had already been to the Moon, it is thought
Stuart Roosa (Apollo 14 Command Module Pilot) would have been assigned the
Commander position on Apollo 20.
Harrison Schmitt was reassigned as Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 17 after his
mission was cancelled, presumably replacing Joe Engle, who was part of the Apollo 14
backup crew (with Cernan and Evans).
Vance Brand went on to fly on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) and
command three Shuttle missions.
(The ASTP is often referred to as "Apollo 18" although the original Apollo 18
was the planned Moon mission.)
Charles Conrad and Paul Weitz were assigned to the first crew to Skylab,
Weitz later commanded a shuttle mission.
Jack Lousma was on the second Skylab crew and later commanded a shuttle mission,
and William Pogue and Gerald Carr were assigned to the third Skylab crew.
Joe Engle was Commander of two Shuttle missions.
Author/Curator:
Dr. David R. Williams, dave.williams@nasa.gov
NSSDCA, Mail Code 690.1
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
+1-301-286-1258
NASA Official: Dr. David R. Williams, david.r.williams@nasa.gov
Last Updated: 11 December 2003, DRW
Apollo home page
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Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
