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.
The Pluto - Earth distance is 4,536,358,827 km, and is decreasing at the rate of 638,114 km per day. This is as of 2007-June-3, at 00:00 Universal Time (GMT). This is the same as 30.324 AU, and -0.00427 AU/day, respectively.