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.
Pluto is only 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) wide. That is about half the width of the United States and slightly smaller than Earth's moon. It takes Pluto 248 years to make one revolution around the sun. Pluto takes 6 1/2 days to rotate, so one day on Pluto is about 6 1/2 days on Earth. In 2005, this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was used to identify two new moons orbiting Pluto. Pluto is in the center.