Step 1: Selecting an Area. You may have identified several high-priority kaizen opportunities through Value Stream Mapping. Select an area that has a relatively sound process and a high likelihood of success. It is important to succeed quickly in the first kaizen event to build momentum for the subsequent events.
You have to look at crewed missions to deep space differently than you look at robotic missions. The New Horizons spacecraft will take eight and a half or nine years to reach Pluto, and that is too long for human spaceflight.
After nine and a half years and traveling three billion miles, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto and its five moons on July 14 in order to learn more about the distant dwarf planet. At 7:49 a.m. EDT, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto. The craft came within 7,750 miles of Pluto's surface, or the distance from New York to Mumbai, India. Nine Years Later: NASA Spacecraft Captures Close Up Images of Pluto. Nine Years Later: NASA Spacecraft Captures Close Up Images of Pluto.