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.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be approximately 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) from Pluto's surface at 7:49 a.m. ET on July 14 -- Tuesday -- becoming the first spacecraft to do a flyby of the icy world. It also will pass about 17,000 miles from Pluto's largest moon, Charon.