The Mission Operations Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center is preparing to meet the needs of NASA's future missions.

A research and prototyping project is underway to develop a new planning and scheduling system that could be configured to support a variety of programs. Imagine scientists planning and scheduling their own experiments from their own lab.  Imagine astronauts autonomously planning their daily activities while, at the same time, ground controllers schedule and maintain the infrastructure of the spacecraft or moon base.  This system, called Nexus, is based on the Mission Operations Laboratory's 30+ years of experience in planning and scheduling manned space activities.   [learn more]