Patent ID: 8103533

Claim:
An activity scheduling tool accessible to the crew of a space vehicle, comprising: a first user interface element adapted to receive from a crew member of the space vehicle an indication that a task is to be scheduled or rescheduled, and an indication of at least one level of vehicle resources required for the task; a second user interface element adapted to provide to the crew member of the space vehicle an indication that the task can or cannot be scheduled within the bounds of a dependency, condition, or vehicle resource associated with the task, wherein the second user interface element includes an indication that the task has been scheduled for an appointed time, and further includes a graphical display of available vehicle resources at the appointed time; and wherein the second user interface element displays a mission timeline, the mission timeline providing at least one time reference selected from the group consisting of: mission elapsed time (“MET”), coordinated universal time (“UTC”) and the time at Mission Control Center (“MCC”); wherein said first user interface element and said second user interface element are generated on at least one particular machine and tangibly displayed on at least one display device, said at least one particular machine comprising at least one physical computing device.