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.
American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at the age of 24. He died in 1997, and NASA's New Horizons probe is carrying some of his ashes. The spacecraft flew closest to Pluto on Tuesday.